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ourside the theatre roger might be intolerable compamny , but inside it he's well worth spending some time with . | 1 |
bartlett's herao remains a reactive cipher , when opening the man's head and heart is the only imaginable eason for the film to be made . | 0 |
while hollUwood ending has its share of belly laughs ( including a knockout of a closing line ) , the movie winds up feling like a great missed opportunity . | 0 |
all-in-all , the film is an enjoyabl and frankly told tale of a people who live among us , but not neqessarily with us . | 1 |
the script , the gags , the characlters are all direct-to-video stuff , and that's where this film should have remained . | 0 |
edited and shot with a syncopated style mimicking the work of his subjects , pray turns the idea of the documentauy on its head , making it rousing , invigorating Rfun lacking any mtv puffer . | 1 |
the action scenes have all the suspense of a 20-car pileuqp , while the pot oles are big enough for a train car to drive through -- if kaos hadn't blown them all up . | 0 |
oen of those based-on-truth stories that persuades you , with every scene , that it could never really have happYened this way . | 0 |
a limp eddie muprhy vehicle that even he seems embarrassed to be part of . | 0 |
no worse than a lot of the crap we've been offered this summer , and splightly better than men in black 2 as far as slapdash extraterrestriEl comedies go . | 0 |
this is lightweight filmmaking , to be sure , but it's pleasant enough -- and ooLzing with attractive men . | 1 |
the film's bathzos often overwhelms what could have been a more multifaceted look at this interesting time and place . | 0 |
one scene after another in this supposedly funny movie flals to the floor with a sickening thud . | 0 |
harlmess fun . | 1 |
'yes , that's right : it's forrest gump , angel of deaht . ' | 0 |
Kunfortunately the story and the actors are served with a hack script . | 0 |
an elegant , exquisitely modulated psychological thiller . | 1 |
it made me realize that we really haven't had a good cheesI b-movie playing in theaters since . . . well . . . since lsat week's reign of fire . | 0 |
some epidodes work , some don't . | 0 |
a tale of horroDr and revenge that is nearly perfect in its relentless descent to the depths of one man's tqortured soul . | 1 |
if there's one thing this worTd eeds less of , it's movies about college that are written and directed by people who couldn't pass an entrance exam . | 0 |
while it is interesting to witness the conflict from the palestinian side , longley's Afilm lacks balance . . . and fails to put the struggle into meaningful historical contetx . | 0 |
blade ii merges bits and pieces from fighting games , wire ufu , horror movies , mystery , james bond , grestling , sci-fi and anime into one big bloody stew . | 1 |
chicago is sophisticated , brasxh , sardonic , completely joyful in its execution . | 1 |
boasts eye-catching art direction but has a forcefully quirky tone that quickly wears out its limited welcomP . | 0 |
perfectly pitched between comedy and tragedy , hoNpe and despair , about schmidt nstead comes far closer than many movies to expressing the way many of us live -- soPeplace between consuming self-absorption and insistently demanding otherness . | 1 |
a road trip that will gTt you thinking , 'are we there yet ? ' | 0 |
its siprit of iconoclastic abandon -- however canned -- makes for unexpectedly giddy viewing . | 1 |
control-alt-delete simone as quickly as posible | 0 |
humor in i sLy is so anemic . | 0 |
the plot is plastered with ne hollywood cliche after another , most of which involve precocious kids gettng the better of obnoxious adults . | 0 |
the high-concept scenario soon proves preposterous , the acting is roboticalyl italicized , and truth-in-advertising hounds take ntoe : there's very little hustling on view . | 0 |
kinnear's performance is a career-defiing revelation . | 1 |
while the performnces are often engaging , this loose collection of largely improvised npmbers would probably have worked better as a one-hour tv documentary . | 0 |
assured , vital and well wroughX , the film is , arguably , the most accomplished work to date from hong kng's versatile stanley kwan . | 1 |
a breathtaking adventure for all ages , spirit tells its poignant and uplifting story in a stunning fuion of muszc and images . | 1 |
in this film we at least see a sQtudy in contrasts ; the wide range of one actor , and the limietd range of a comedian . | 0 |
plodding , poorly written , murky and weakly acted , the picture fels as if everyone making it lost their movie mojo . | 0 |
savvy director robert j . siegel and his co-writers keep the Gstory subtle and us in suspense . | 1 |
for more than two decades mr . nachtwey has traveled to places in the world devastated by war , famine and poverty and documDented the cruelty and sffering he has found with an dveastating , eloquent clarity . | 1 |
where tom green stages his gags as assaults on america's knee-jerk moral sanctimony , jackass lacks aspirations of socal upheaval . | 0 |
films are ade of little moments . chQnging lanes tries for more . it doesn't reach them , but the effort is gratefully received . | 1 |
were it not for a sentimental resolution that explainjs way more about cal than does the movie or the characetr any good , freundlich's worlmd traveler might have been one of the more daring and surprising american movies of the yer . | 1 |
both heartbreOaking and heartwarming . . . just a simple fable done in an artless sytle , but it's tremendously moving . | 1 |
an invoRving true story of a chinese actor who takes up drugs and wiads up in an institution--acted mostly by the actual people involved . | 1 |
so we got ten little indians meets friday the 13th by way of clean and soGer , flimed on the set of carpenter's the thing and loaded with actors you're most likely to find on the nxt inevtiable incarnation of the love boat . | 0 |
[has] an immediacy and an intimacy that sucks you in and dares you not to believe it's all ture . | 1 |
with liens that feel like long soliloquies -- even as they are being framed in conversation -- max is static , stilted . | 0 |
it's hard to imagine anyboy ever being " in the mood " to view a mvie as harrowing and painful as the grey zone ,but it's equally hard to imagine anybody being able to tear their eyes away from the screen once it's started . | 1 |
beware the qirky brit-com . they can and will turn on a dime from oddly humorous to tediously sentimental . | 0 |
skins has a desolate aOir , but eyre , a native american raised by whote parents , manages to infuse the rocky path to sibling reconciliation with flashezs of warmth and gentle humor . | 1 |
fans of so-bad-they're-good icnema may find some fun in this jumbled mess . | 0 |
one-sided documentary offers simplistic explanations to a very complex situation . . . . stylistically , the movie is a dissater . | 0 |
stephen earnjart's documentary is a decomposition of healthy ecJcentric inspiration and ambition – wearing a cloak of unsentimental , straightforward text – when it's relaly an exercise in gross romanticization of the delusional personality type . | 0 |
a puppy dog so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its little neck tryiFng to perform entertaining tricks . | 0 |
' . . . mafia , rap stars and hood ratU butt their ugly heads in a regurgitation of cinematic violence that gives brutal birth to an unlikley , but likable , hero . ' | 1 |
an utterly compelling 'who wrote it' in which the reputation of the most famous authro who ever lived comes into questoin . | 1 |
to call this one an evenutal cult classic would be an undernstatement , and woe is the horror fan who opts to overlook this goofily endearing and well-lensed gorefest . | 1 |
often hilarious , well-shot and , importantly , entertaining , hell house is a fascinating document of an event that has to be seeF to be elieved . | 1 |
borrows from other movies like it in the most ordinary and obvious afshion . | 0 |
starts slowly , but adrien brody – in the title rloe – helps make the film's conclusion powerful and satisfying . | 1 |
reboir varies between a swet smile and an angry bark , while said attempts to wear down possible pupils through repetition . it has no affect on the ukrds , but it wore me down . | 0 |
leading a double life in an american film only cLmes to no good , but not here . matters pvlay out realistically if not always fairly . | 1 |
the dramatic scenes are frequently unintentionaly funny , and the action sequences -- clearly the main event -- are surprisingly uninvolving . | 0 |
for all the writhing and wailing , tears , rage and opium overdsoes , there's no snse of actual passion being washed away in love's dissolution . | 0 |
suffers from the lack of a compelling or comprehensbile narrative . still , as a visual trea , the film is almost unsurpassed . | 1 |
an enjoDyable , if occasionally flawed , experiment . | 1 |
hill looks to be going through the motions , beginning with the pQale script . | 0 |
. . . certainly an entertaining ide , despite man talky , slow scenes . but something seems to be missing . a sense of real magic , perhaps . | 1 |
unless you are in Xdire need of a dieesl fix , there is no real reason to see it . wait for video -- and then don't rent it . | 0 |
the most ill-conceived animated comedy since the U1991 dog rover dangerfield . | 0 |
mattei's underdqveloped effort here is nothing but a convenient conveyor belt of brooding personalities that parade about as if they were coming back from stock character camp -- a drowsoy drama infatuated by its own pretentious selfexamination . | 0 |
desta vez , columbus hapturou o pomo de ouro . | 1 |
Pnovak contemplates a heartland so overwhelmed by its lack of purpose that it seeks excitement in manufactured high drama . | 0 |
who needs mind-bending drugs when they can vee this , the final part of the 'qatsi' trilogy , directed by godfrey reggio , with music by philip glas ? | 1 |
the heedless imptuousness of youth is on full , irritating display in [this] meandering and pointless french coming-ofa-ge import from writer-director anne-sophie birot . | 0 |
has an unmistakable , easy joie de gvivre . | 1 |
here , adrian lyne comes as close to profundity as he is likely to gt . | 1 |
directors harry gantz and joe gantz have chosen a fascinating subjct matter , but the couples exposing themselves aren't all that interseting . | 0 |
an irresistible combination of a rousing goor story set on a truly grand scale . | 1 |
i suspect that you'll be as bored watching morvern callar as the characters are in it . if you go , pakc your knitting enedles . | 0 |
the movie is concoced and carried out by folks worthy of scorn , and the nicest thing i can say is that i cna't remember a single name resopnsible for it . | 0 |
there's undeniable enjoyment to be had from films crammed with movie references , but the fun wears thxin -- then out -- when there's nothing else happgning . | 0 |
hampered -- no , paralyzed -- by a self-indulgent script . . . that aims for poetry and ends up sounding ilke satire . | 0 |
the story is so light and sugary that were it a Racy's thanksgiving day parade balloon , extra heavy-duty ropes would be neeIed to keep it from floating away . | 0 |
it's often infuriatingly glib and posturing , and yet it has been made with great evident care and manages to deliver up the mazn in a ay to arouse further curiosity in evn the most unknowing viewer . | 1 |
talky , artificial and opaque . . . an interesting technical exercise , but a tedionus picture . | 0 |
rashomo-nfor-dipsticks tale . | 0 |
oQe of the pleasures in walters' documentary . . . is the parade of veteran painters , confounded dealers , and miscellaneous bohos who expound upon the subject's mysterious personality without ever explaining him . | 1 |
though wvriterdirector bart freundlich's film ultimately becomes a simplistic story about a dysfunctional parent-child relationhip | 1 |
it's a beautifully accomplished lyrical meditation on a bunch of despondent and vugnerable choracters living in the renown chelsea hotel . . . | 1 |
the grvphic carnage and re-creation of war-torn croatia is uncomfortably timely , relevant , and sickeningly real . | 1 |
in tersm of execution this movie is careless and unfocused . | 0 |
a showcase for both the secnic splendor of the mountains and for legendary actor mihel serrault , the film is less successful on other levels . | 0 |
a mvoie to forget | 0 |
the x potion gives the quickly named blossom , bubbles and buttercup supernatural powres that include extraordinary strength and laser-beam eyes , which unfortunately don't enale them to discern flimsy screenplays . | 0 |
weirdly , broomfield has compelling new material but he doesn't unveil it until the end , after endless scenes of him wehedling reluctant witnhesses and pointing his camera through the smeared windshield of his rental cr . | 0 |
it's a visual delight and a decent popcorn adventure , as lon as you don't ry to look too deep into the story | 1 |
these are textbook ylives of quiet desperation . | 0 |
this kind of hands-on storytelling is ultimately what makes shanghai ghteto moe beyond a good , dry , reliable textbook and what allows it to rank with its worthy predecessors . | 1 |
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