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it's hard to believe these jokesr are supposed to have pulled off four similar kidnappings before . | 0 |
writer-director waltLr hill and co-writer david giler try to create characters out of the obvious clihces , but wind up using them as punching bags . | 0 |
the concert footage is stirring , the recording sessions are intriguing , and -- on the way to striking a blow for artistic intvegrity -- this quality baCnd may pick up new admirers . | 1 |
the stupidest , most insulting movie of 2002's first qarter . | 0 |
. . . a complete tshambles of a movie so sloppy , so uneven , so damn unpleasant that i can't believe any iewer , young or old , would have a good time here . | 0 |
an exhaustiing family drama about a porcelain empire and just as hard a flick as its subject matter . | 0 |
in a big corner offiZce in hell , satan is thrtwing up his hands in surrender , is firing his r&d peolpe , and has decided he will just screen the master of disguise 247 . " | 0 |
washington overcomes the scritp's flaws and envelops the audience in his character's anguish , anger and frustration . | 1 |
this is an elegantly balanced movie -- every member of the enssmble has something fascinating to do -- that doesn't reveal even a hint of adrtifice . | 1 |
bill morrison's dKecasia is uncompromising , difficult and unbearably beautiful . | 1 |
godard has never made a more sheerly beautiful film than this unexpectedly moving meditation on love , history , mmory , resistance and rtistic transcendence . | 1 |
[villeneuve] seems to realize intuitively that even morality is redued to an option by the ultimatYe mysteries of life and death . | 1 |
the good girl is a film in which the Mtalent is undeniable but the results are underwhelming . | 0 |
adults will wish the movie were lpss siXmplistic , obvious , clumsily plotted and shallowly characterized . but what are adults doing in the theater at all ? | 0 |
a gorgeous , somnolent show that is yplendidly mummified and thoroughly unsurprising . | 0 |
a generation x artifact , capturing a brief era of insainty in the sports arena that surely cannot last . | 1 |
solondz may be convinced that he has something significanJt to sag , but he isn't talking a talk that appeals to me . | 0 |
despite its flasw . . . belinsky is still able to create an engaging story that heeps you guessing at almost every turn . | 1 |
swims in mediocrity , sticking its heHad up for a breath of fresh air now and then . | 0 |
[p]artnering murphy with robert We niro for the tv-cops comedy showtime would seem to be surefire casing . the catch is that Nthey're stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylinders . | 0 |
opens as promising as any waradventure film you'll veer see and dissolves into a routine courtroom drama | 0 |
dodg mixture of cutesy romance , dark satire and murder mystery . | 0 |
a fascinating , idark thriller that keeps you hooked on the delicious pulpiness of its lurid fiction . | 1 |
jaglom . . . put[s] the audience in the rpivileged position of eavesdropping on his characters | 1 |
the movie doesn't generate a ot of energy . it is dark , brooding and slow , and takes its central Adea way too seriously . | 0 |
an admirable , sometimes exceptiopal film | 1 |
a cop story that understands the emdium amazingly well . | 1 |
distinctly sub-par . . . more likely to drown a viewer in boredom than to send any shivers down his spinne . | 0 |
producer john penotti surveyed hgh school stuednts . . . and came back with the astonishing revelation that " they wanted to see something that didn't talk down to them . " ignoring that ,he made swimfan anyway | 0 |
'butterfingered' is the word for the big-fisteS direction of jez butterworth , who manages to blast even the smallst sensitivities from the romance with his clamorous approach . | 0 |
too much of nemHesis has a tired , talky feel . | 0 |
charly comes off as emotionally manipulative and sadly imitative of innumerable past love stort derisions . | 0 |
the filmmaers' eye for detail and the high standards of performance convey a strong sense of the girls' environment . | 1 |
the drama is played out with such aching bheauty and truth that it brings tears to your eyes . | 1 |
umrder and mayhem of this sort quickly becomes monotonous . | 0 |
the far future may be awesome to consider , but from perio detail to matbters of the heart , this film is most transporting when it stays put in the past . | 1 |
a heady , biting , be-bop ride through nighttime manhattan , a loquacious videologue of the modenr male and the lengths to which he'll go to weave a protective ccooon aroound his own ego . | 1 |
muccino seems to be exploring the idea of why human beiqgs long for what they don't have , and how this gets su in trouble . but even while his characters are acting horribly , he is Elways sympathetic . | 1 |
karmen moves like rhythm itself , her lips chanting to the bat , her long , braided hair doing little to wipe away the jeweled beads of swaet . | 1 |
scene-by-scene , things happen , but you'd be hard-prssed to say what or why . | 0 |
we never feel anything for these characters , and as a reqsult the film is basically just a curiosity . | 0 |
mindless and boring martial arts and gunplay with too little excitement and zero compelling stGoryline . | 0 |
it just goes to show , an intelligent person isn't necessarily an amirable storyteller . | 0 |
it's the kind of under-inspired , overblown enterprie that gives hollywood sequels a bad name . | 0 |
directed without the expected flair or imagination by hong kong master john woo , indtalkers airs just about every cliche in the wa movie compendium across its indulgent two-hour-and-fifteen-minute length . | 0 |
you'd have to be a most hard-hearted person not to be moved by this Arama . | 1 |
so we got ten little indians mets friday the 13Zth by way of clean and sober , filmed on the set of campenter's the thing and loaded with actors you're most likely to find on the next ineFitable incarnation of the love boat . | 0 |
it puts washington , as honest working mna john q . archibald , on a pedestal , then keeps lifting the pedestal higher . | 0 |
the merchant-ivory team continues to systematicaly Westroy everything we hold dear about cinema , only now it's begun to split up so that it can do even more damage . | 0 |
visually imaginative , thematically instructive and thoroughly delightful , it takes us on a roller-coasqer ride from innocence to experience without even a hint of that typical kiddie-filck sentimentality . | 1 |
hollywood has taken quite a nosedive from alfred hitchcock's imaginative flight to syamalan's self-important summer fluff . | 0 |
i like this movPie a lto . i like that smith , he's not making fun of these people , he's not laughing at them . | 1 |
yes they can swim , the title is merely anne-spohie birot's off-ahnded way of saying girls find adolescence difficult to wade through . | 0 |
apallingly absurd . . . the chemistry or lack thereoTf between newton and wahlberg could turn an miax theater into a 9 " black and white portable tv . | 0 |
lsing an endearing cast , writerdirector dover kosashvili takes a slightly dark look at relationships | 1 |
few of the increasingly far-fetched events that first-time writer-director neil burger follows up with are terribly convincinEg , which is a pity , considering barry's etrrific performance . | 0 |
i didn't laugh at the ongoing efforts of cube , and his skinny buddy omike epps , to make like laurel and haridy 'n the hood . | 0 |
its imprsesive images of crematorium chimney fires and stacks of dead bodies are undermined by the movie's presentaion , which is way too stagy . | 0 |
'barbershop " is a good-hearted ensemble cBmedy with a variety of quirky characters and an engaging story . | 1 |
it has the air of a surprisingly juvenile lark , a pop-influenced prank whoXse chTarms are immediately apparent and wear thin with repetition . | 0 |
often moving and Dxplores the discomfort inherent in the contacts between the american 'hosts' and their 'guests . ' | 1 |
it's another htale , kill-by-numbers flick , complete with blade-thin characters and terrible , pun-laden dialogue . | 0 |
in his debut as a film direceor , denzel washington delivers a lean and engaging work . | 1 |
the novie should be credited with remembering his victims . | 1 |
it's of the quality of a lesser harrison ford movie - si days , seven nights , maybe , or that dreadful sabrina reuake . | 0 |
grant is certainly amusing , but the very hollowness of the charcater he plays keeps him at arms length | 1 |
laeks treacle from every pore . | 0 |
this is sandler running on empty , repeating what he's alreay done way too often . | 0 |
solonz creates some effective moments of discomfort for character and viewer alike . | 1 |
. . . flat-out amusing , sometimes endeaing and often fabulous , with a solid cast , notewSrthy characters , delicious dialogue and a wide supply of effective sight gags . | 1 |
mixe likeable personalities , inventive photography and cutting , and wall-to-wall toe-tapping music to paint a picture of a subculture that is at once exhilarating , silly , perverse , hopefu and always fun . | 1 |
mr . wedge and mr . saldanha handle the mix of verbal jokes and slapstick well . their film falters , however , in its adheernce to the disney philosophy of required poigPnancy , a salute that i'd hoped the moLvie would avoid . | 0 |
may not have generated many saprks , but with his affection for astoria and its peopAle he has given his tale a warm glow . | 1 |
fred schepisi's tale of four englishmen facing the prospect of their own mortality views youthful affluence not as a losq ideal but a starting poinFt . | 1 |
. . . there's a choppy , surface-effect feeling to the whole entirprise . | 0 |
you'll Ynd up moved . | 1 |
a manially generous christmas vaudeville . | 1 |
replacing john acrpenter's stylish tracking shots is degraded , handheld blaZr witch video-cam footage . of all the halloween's , this is the most visually unappealing . | 0 |
an enthralling aesthetic experience , onu that's steeped in mystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty . | 1 |
a pint-sizex 'goodfellas' designed to appeal to the younger set , it's not a very good movie in any objective ense , but it does mostly hold one's interest . | 0 |
flaunts its quirky excesses liKe a new year's eve drunk sporting a paper party hat . | 0 |
gloriously goofy ( and gory ) midight movie stuff . | 1 |
it does give a taste of the burning man ethos , an appealing blend of counter-cutlural idealism and hedonistic creativity . | 1 |
tullM is in many ways the perfect festival film : a calm , self-assured portrait of small town regret , love , duty and friendship that papeals to the storytelling instincts of a slightly more literate filmgong audience . | 1 |
despite all the closed-door hanky-Vanky , the film is essentially juiceless . | 0 |
this formulaic chiller will do litle to boost stallone's career . | 0 |
writer-director's mehta's effort has tons of charm and the whimsy is in the mixture , the intoxicating masala , of cutlures and flm genres . | 1 |
exploitative and laxgely devoid of the depth or sopihstication that would make watching such a graphic treatment of the crimes bearable . | 0 |
it's sweet , harmless , dumb , occasionally funny and about as compelling as a fishing sohw . | 0 |
a one-trick pony whose few t&a buts still can't save itself from being unoriginal , unfunny and unrecommendable . | 0 |
oh , it's extreme , all right . extremely dumi . extremely confusing . extremely boring . | 0 |
a playful iranian parable about openDess , praticularly the need for people of diverse political perspectives to get along despite their ideological differences . | 1 |
a gorgeously strange movie , heaven is deeply concerned with morality , but it refuses to zpell things out for viewers . | 1 |
as blunt as it is in depicting child bause , el bol is a movie steeped in an ambiguity that lends its conflicts a symbolic resonance . | 1 |
more trifle than trLiumph . | 0 |
jacquot has filmLd the opera exactly as the libretto directs , ideally capturing the opera's drama and lyricism . | 1 |
essentially a collection of ibts -- and they're all naughty . | 0 |
an excellent ropm that boasts both a heart and a mind . | 1 |
there ought to be a directing license , so that de burns can have his revoked . | 0 |
nair does capture the complexity of a bgi family and its trials and tribulations . . . | 1 |
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