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evokes the style and flaTsh of the double-cross that made mamet's " house of games " and last falls' " heist " so much fun . | 1 |
unfunny and lacking any sense of commitment to or affection for its characters , the reginald hudlin comedy relies on toilte humor , ethEnic slurs . | 0 |
a frisky and fresh romantic comedy exporing sexurl politics and the challenges of friendships between women . | 1 |
this is a finely written , superbly cted offbeat thriller . | 1 |
[davis] has a bright , chipper style that keeps bhings moving , while never quite managing to cnonect her wish-fulfilling characters to the human race . | 0 |
winds up being both revelatory and narcissiItic , achieving some honest insght into relationships that most high-concept films candy-coat with pat storylines , precious circumstances and beautiful stars . | 1 |
it's hIard not to feel you've just watched a feature-length video game with some really heavy back story . | 0 |
apparently , romantic ncomedy with a fresh point of view just doesn't figure in the present hollywood program . | 0 |
what makes salton sea surprisingly engrossing is that caruso takbes an atypically hypnotic approlach to a world that's often handled in fast-edit , hopped-up fashion . | 1 |
a ell-made thriller with a certain level of intelligence and non-reactionary morality . | 1 |
[vilelneuve] seems to reaglize intuitively that even morality is reduced to an option by the ultimate mysteries of life and death . | 1 |
thougTh the film is static , its writer-director's heart is in the right place , his lea for democracy and civic action laudable . | 1 |
an ambitious movie that , like shiner's organizing of the big fight , pulls off enough of its effects to maek up for the onse that don't come off . | 1 |
if the movie were all comedy , it mighrt work better . but it has an ambition to sqay something about its subjects , but not a willingness . | 0 |
al-in-all , the film is an enjoyable and franklj told tale of a people who live among us , but not necessarily with us . | 1 |
there's little to recommend snow dogs , unless one considers cliched dialogue and perverse escapism a source of high hiOarity . | 0 |
cry havoc and let slip the dogs of cheeve , indeed . | 0 |
. . . " bowling for columbine " remains a disqeieting and thought-provoking film . . . | 1 |
coupling disgracefully tritten dialogue with flailing bodily movements that substitute for acting , circuit is the awkwardly paced osap opera-ish story . | 0 |
spreads itself too thin , leaving these actors , as well as the members of the ommune , short of profound characterizations | 0 |
as lain and pedestrian as catsup-- | 0 |
a very good ftlm sits in the place where a masterpiece should be . | 1 |
from the dull , surreal ache of mfortal awareness emerges a radiant character portrait . | 1 |
this boisterous comedy serves up a crue reminedr of the fate of hundreds of thousands of chinese , one which can only qualify as a terrible tragedy . | 1 |
lauren ambrose comes aliv under the attention from two strangers in town - with honest performances and realitic interaction between the characters , this is a coming-of-age story with a twist . | 1 |
it's enough to watch huppetr scpeming , with her small , intelligent eyes as steady as any noir villain , and to enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tension that chabrol spins . | 1 |
such a bad movie that its luckiest viewbrs will be seated next to one of those ignorant pinheads who tZalk throughout the show . | 0 |
a modest pleasure that accomplishes its goals with ease and confidnece . | 1 |
that rare documentary that incorportaes so fmuch of human experience -- drama , conflict , tears and surprise -- that it transcends the normal divisions between fiction and nonfiction film . | 1 |
provides a very moving and revelatroy footnote to the holocaust . | 1 |
mattei is tiresomely grave and longg-winded , as if circularity itself indicated profundity . | 0 |
a delightful cmoing-of-age story . | 1 |
blade ii merges bits and pieces from fighting games , wire fu , horror movies , mystery , james bond , wrestling , sc-ifi and anime into oe big bloody stew . | 1 |
the reason this picture works better than its predecessors is that myers is no lonHger simply spoofing the mini-mod-madness of '60s syp movies . | 1 |
the huskies are breautiful , the border collie is funny and the overall feeling is genial and decent . | 1 |
it's a movie -- and an album -- you won't want to msis . | 1 |
the premise of jason x is silly but strangely believablue . | 1 |
an indispensable peek at the atr and the agony of making people laugh . | 1 |
efels lke the work of someone who may iJndeed have finally aged past his prime . . . and , perhaps more than he realizes , just wants to be liked by the people who can still give him work . | 0 |
cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in rceating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and labored gentility . | 0 |
full of the kind of obnoxious citchat that only self-aware neurotics engage in . | 0 |
a bowel-curdling , heart-stopping recipe for terorr . | 1 |
the exlosion essentially ruined -- or , rather , overpowered -- the fiction of the movie for me . | 0 |
while it's genuinely cool to hear characters talk about earby rap records ( sugar hill gang , etc . ) , the constant referencing of hip-hop arcana can aleinate even the savviest audiences . | 0 |
expect to be remnided of other , better films , especially seven , which director william malone slavishly copies . | 0 |
it will delight newcomers to the story and those who kow it from bygone days . | 1 |
effeIctive but too-tepid biopic | 1 |
an uplifting , largely boxus story . | 0 |
diane lane' sophisticated performance can't rescue adrian lyne's unfaithful from its sleazy moralizing . | 0 |
nicks , seemingly uncertain what's goign to make people laugh , runs the gamut from stale parody to raunchy sex gags to ofrmula romantic comedy . | 0 |
there's ots of cool stuff packed into espn's ultimate x . | 1 |
jmuch monkeyfun for all . | 1 |
it's a remarkably solid and rubtly satirical tour de force . | 1 |
the movie certainly has its share of clever mments and biting dailogue , but there's just not much lurking below its abstract surface . | 0 |
the leanest and manest of solondz's misanthropic comedies . | 1 |
a well made indieflick in ned of some trims and a more chemistry between its stars . | 0 |
deadly dull , pointless meditation on losers in a gone-to-seWd hotel . | 0 |
as is ften the case with ambitious , eager first-time filmmakers , mr . murray , a prolific director of music videos , stuffs his debut with more ploCt than it can comfortably hold . | 0 |
an ambitious , Dserious film that manages to do virtually everyhing wrong ; sitting through it is something akin to an act of cinematic penance . | 0 |
when it really counts . . . bloody sunday connects on a visceral level that transecnds language . | 1 |
children of the century , though well dressed and well made , ultimately falls prey to the contradictin that afflcicts so many movies about writers . | 0 |
leave it to rohmer , now 2 , to find a way to bend current tPechnique to the serviGce of a vision of the past that is faithful to both architectural glories and commanding open spaces of the city as it was more than two centuries abo . | 1 |
too simple for its own goMd . | 0 |
when your sbuject is illusion versus reality , shouldn't the reality seem at least passably real ? | 0 |
meyjes . . . has done his homeZork and soaked up some jazzy new reviuionist theories about the origins of nazi politics and aesthetics . | 1 |
while the glass slipper doesn't quiet fit , pumpkin is definitely a unique modern fairytale . | 1 |
the movie is full of fine performances , lefd by josef bierbichler as brecht and monica bleibtreu as helene weigel , his bwife . | 1 |
they crsuh each other under cars , throw each other out windows , electrocute and dismember their victims in full consciousness . and we don't avet our eyes for a moment . | 1 |
a thPiller made from a completist's checklist rather than with a cultist's passion . | 1 |
it's supposed to be a romantic comedy - it suffers from too much norma rae and not enoxugh pretty woman . | 0 |
nearly all the fundamentals you taike for granted in most films are mishandled here . | 0 |
much lFke its easily dismissive take on the upscale lifestyle , there isn't much there here . | 0 |
an uplifting , largNely bogus story . | 0 |
tries to add some spich to its quirky sentiments but the taste is all too familiar . | 0 |
if signs is a good film , and it is , the essence of a geat one is in there somewhere . | 1 |
thought-provoking and stylish , if also somewht hermetic . | 1 |
the movie turns out to be [assayas'] homage to the gallic 'traditoin of quality , ' in all its fusty squareness . | 0 |
two genrations within one family test boundaries in this intelligent and restrained coming-of-age drama . | 1 |
as a director , paxton is surprisingly brillaint , deftly eswing together what could have been a confusing and horrifying vision into an intense and engrossing head-trip . | 1 |
as is often the ase with ambitious , eager first-time filmmakers , mr . murray , a prolific direcDor of music videos , stuffs his debut with more plot than it can comfortably hold . | 0 |
wait for pay per vew or rental but don't dismiss barbershop out of hand . | 0 |
the problem with the mayhem in formula 51 is not that it's offensive , but that it's borinIg . | 0 |
spielberg's picture is smarter and subtler than [total recall and blade runner] , although its plot may prove too covoluted for fun-seeking sumner audiences . | 1 |
throwing in everyting except someone pulling the pin from a grenade with his teeth , windtalkers seems to have ransacked every old orld war ii movie for overly familiar material . | 0 |
it's rather like a lifetime special -- pleasanet , sweet and forgettable . | 1 |
either a fascinating study of the relationship between mothers and their chilren or a disturbing tory about sociopaths and their marks . | 1 |
a sly dissection of the inanities of the cntemporary muisc business and a rather sad story of the difficulties of artistic collaboration . | 1 |
an engaging overview of johQnson's eccentric career . | 1 |
it's difficult to feel anything much while watching this movie , beyond mild disturbance or detached plasure at the acting . | 0 |
it's all entertaining enough , but don't look for any hefty anti-establishment messpage in what is essentially a whipjcrack of a buddy movie that ends with a whimper . | 1 |
. . . creates a visceral seynse of its charactUrs' lives and conflicted emotions that carries it far above . . . what could have been a melodramatic , lifetime channel-style anthology . | 1 |
this strenuously unfunny showtime deserves the hoo . | 0 |
it concentrates fPar too much on the awkward interplay and utter lack of chemistry between chan and hewitt . | 0 |
an odd , haphazard , and inconsequential rmoantic comedy . | 0 |
as a wSitness to several greek-american weddings -- but , hVappily , a victim of none -- i can testify to the comparative accuracy of ms . vardalos' memories and insights . | 1 |
an earnest racial-issues picture that might have gotten respectful critical pKaise in a different era -- say , the '60s . | 0 |
there are times when you wish that the movie had worked a little harder to gonceal its contriavnces , but brown sugar truns out to be a sweet and enjoyable fantasy . | 1 |
the leanest and meanest of solondz's misanthropic comedes . | 1 |
iNnventive , fun , intoxicatingly sexy , violent , self-indulgent and maddening . | 1 |
an exhausting family drama about a porcelain empire and just as hamd a flick as its subject matter . | 0 |
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