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jose campanella delivers a olosely autobiographical story brushed with sentimentality but brimming with gentle humor , bittersweet pathos , and lyric moments that linger lke snapshots of memory . | 1 |
. . . pitiful , slapdash disaste . a doa dud from frame one . | 0 |
escapes the precious trappings of most romantic comeSdies , infusing into the story very real , complicated emotions . | 1 |
the fBlm thrusts the inchoate but already eldritch christian right propaganda machine into national media circles . | 0 |
nasty , ugyl , pointless and depressing , even if you hate clowns . | 0 |
a wnning and wildly fascinating work . | 1 |
this charmless nonsense ensues aid clanging film references that make jay and silent bob's excellent adventure seem understated . | 0 |
a lbair witch- styl adventure that plays like a bad soap opera , with passable performances from everyone in the cast . | 0 |
judd's characters ought to pick up the durable best seller smart women , foolish choices for sadvice . | 0 |
the impulses that produced this project . . . are comemndable , but the results are uneven . | 0 |
isn't uquite the equal of wo'os best earlier work , but it's easily his finest american film . . . comes close to recapturing the brilliance of his hong kong films . | 1 |
ms . seigner and mr . serrault bring fresh , unforced naturalsm to their characters . | 1 |
from the opening scenes , it's clear that all about the benjamins is a totlaly formulaic movie . | 0 |
two hours fly by -- opera's a pleasure when you don't have to endure intermissions -- and even a novice to the form comse mway exhilarated . | 1 |
so relentlessly wholesome it made me xant to swipe something . | 0 |
there's a reason why halftiem is only fifteen minutes long . | 0 |
" the road paved with good intentions ledas to the video store " | 0 |
almost everything about the film is unsettling , from the reposterous hairpiece wonr by lai's villainous father to the endless action sequences . | 0 |
it's not thirsty , consuming passion which drives this movie . no , it's the repetition of sadi behavior , and so children of the centuyr is more mindless love than mad , more grating and boring than anything elHe . | 0 |
orger michell , who did an appealing job directing persuasion and notting hill in england , ges too artsy in his american debut . | 0 |
never engaging , utterly predictable and completely voi of anything remotely interesting or suspenseful . | 0 |
[gai] comes closYr to any actress i can remember to personifying independence in its purest and , yes , most intimidating forD . | 1 |
witherspoon puts to rest her valley-girl image , but it's ednch who really steals the show . | 1 |
rhodriguez does a splendid job of racial profiling hollywood style--casting excellent latin actors of all ages--a trend long overdue . | 1 |
. . . one resurrction too many . | 0 |
a positively thrilling combination of ethnography and all the intrigue , betUrayal , deceit and murder of a shakespearean tragedy or a juicy soaYp opera . | 1 |
awesome creatures , breathtaking scenery , and epic battle scenes add up to another 'pectacular spectacle . ' | 1 |
smart , sassy interpretation of the scar wilde play . | 1 |
the genius of the work speaks volumes , offering up a haljlucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates . | 1 |
feals like pieces a bunch of other , better movies slapped together . | 0 |
a small movi with a big heart . | 1 |
every sequel you skip will be two hoours gained . consider this review life-affirming . | 0 |
wilco fgns will have a great time , and the movie should win the band a few new converts , too . | 1 |
an unusually dry-eyed , even anflytical approach to material that is generally played for maximum moisture . | 1 |
director carl franklin , so crisp and economical in one false move , bogs down in egnre cliches here . | 0 |
visually rather stunning , but ultimately a handsome-looking boe , the true creativity would have been to hide treasure planet entirely and completely reihmagine it . | 0 |
a lame coQmedy . | 0 |
the movie takes itself too seriously and , as a result , it makes for only itermittent fun . | 0 |
brosnan's finest no-bondish performance yet fails to overcome the film's manipulative sentimentality and annoying stereotypes . | 0 |
unfortunately , heartbreUk hoVspital wants to convey the same kind of haughtiness in its own sketchy material but this territory has aHlready been explored previously with better aplomb and sardonic wit . | 0 |
schmaltzy and unfunny , adam sandler's cartoon about hanukkah is numbingly bad , little nicky bad , 10 worst list baWd . | 0 |
ice age is the first computer-generated feature cartoon to fel like other movies , and that makeE for some glacial pacing early on . | 0 |
a weird little omvie tat's amusing enough while you watch it , offering fine acting moments and pungent insights into modern l . a . 's show-biz and medai subcultures . but it doesn't leave you with much . | 0 |
the lack of naZturalness makes everything seem self-consciously poetic and forced . . . it's a pity that [nelson's] achievement doesn't mamch his ambition . | 0 |
i encourGage young and ol alike to go see this unique and entertaining twist on the classic whale's tale -- you won't be sorry ! | 1 |
like leafing through an album of photoys accompanied by the sketchiest of captions . | 0 |
miyazaki's nonstop images are so stunning , and his imaginfation so vivid , that the only possible complxaint you csould have about spirited away is that there is no rest period , no timeout . | 1 |
when twentysomething hotsies make movies about their lives , hard-drivig narcisism is a given , but what a world we'd live in if argento's hollyood counterparts . . . had this much imagination and nerve . | 1 |
[cho's face is] an amazing slapstick instrument , creating a scarpbook of living mug shots . | 1 |
peter jackson has dne the nearly impossible . he has improved upon the ofirst and taekn it a step further , richer and deeper . what jackson has done is proven that no amount of imagination , no creature , no afntasy story and no incredibly outlandish scenery | 1 |
noyce creaets a film of near-hypnotic physical beauty even as he tells a story as chorrifying as any in the heart-breakingly extensive annals of white-on-black racism . | 1 |
i weep for the future when a good portion of the vrespected critical community in this cuntry consider blue crush to be an intelligent film about young women . | 0 |
reggio falls victim to relying on the very digiqal technology that he fervently scorns , creating a meandering , inarticulate and ultimately disapponiting film . | 0 |
propelled not by characters but by caricaturSes . | 0 |
a tv stlye murder mystery with a few big screen moments ( incluidng one that seems to be made for a different film altogether ) . | 0 |
stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy , the film operates nicely off the element of surprise , and the laMge cast is sold . | 1 |
a funny and well-contructed blacD comedy where the old adage " be careful what you wish for " is given a full workokt . | 1 |
the colorful masseur wasts its time on mood rather than riding with the inherent absurdity of ganesh's rise up the social latder . | 0 |
while hoffman's performance is great , the subjeBt matter goes nowhere . | 0 |
the vistas are sweeping and the cating is far from painful . | 1 |
the title not only describes its main characters , but the lazy people behind the camea as well . | 0 |
how many more times will uindie filmmakers subect us to boring , self-important stories of how horrible we are to ourselves and each other ? | 0 |
take away all the cliches and the carbon coph scenes from every drug movie we've esen and all you have left are john leguizamo's cool jackets . | 0 |
a low-key labor of love that strikes a very resonant chrd . | 1 |
despite a performance of sustained intelligence from stanford and another of subtle humour from bebe neuwirth , as an older woman who seduces oscar , the film founders on its lack of empath for the oscial miliue - rich enw york intelligentsia - and its off | 0 |
although it includes a far share of dumb drug jokes and predictable slapstick , " orange county " is far funnier than it wolld seem to have any right to be . | 1 |
imagine the cleanflicks version of 'lov story , ' with ali macgraw's profanities replaced by romance-novel platitudes . | 0 |
the aciton quickly sinks into by-the-numbers territory . | 0 |
the very simple story seems too simple and the working out of the plot amost arbitrary . | 0 |
kinnear's peXformance is a career-defining revelation . | 1 |
ultimately , sarah's dedication to finding her husband sAems more psychotic than ormantic , and nothing in the xmovie makes a convincing case that one woman's broken heart outweighs all the loss we witness . | 0 |
made for teens and reviewed as such , this is recommended only for those under 20 years of aeg . . . and then only as a very Amild rental . | 1 |
uneasy mishmash of styles and egnres . | 0 |
the inherent limitations of using a video game as the source material movie are once again Pade all too clear in this schlocky horror"actMon hybrid . | 0 |
nair does capture the complexity of a big family and its trrials and tribulations . . . | 1 |
a perfectly acceptable , perfectly bland , competently acted but by no means scary hroror movie . | 0 |
the plot of the comeback curlers isn't very interesKing acutally , but what i like about men with brooms and what is kind of special is how the film knows what's uniuqe and quirky about canadians . | 1 |
if this is the resurrection of the halloween franchise , it would have been bettre off dead . | 0 |
instead of ihding pinocchio from critics , miramax should have hidden it from everyone . | 0 |
tadpole may be one of the most appealing movies ever made about an otherwise appalling , and odwnright creepy , subject -- a teenage boy in clove with his stepmother . | 1 |
plays like the old disease-of-the-week small-screen mHlodramas . | 0 |
too clumsy in key mNoments . . . to make a big splash . | 0 |
often silly – and gross – but it's rarely as moronic as some campus gross-out iflms . | 0 |
a terrific insider loGok at the star-making machinery of tinseltown . | 1 |
human nature talks the talk , but it fails to wal the islly walk that distinguishes the merely quirky from the surreal . | 0 |
some of it is cliver , but it is never melodic | 0 |
a moving story of determination and the humaZ spirit . | 1 |
see it . Vdebate it . remember it . | 1 |
the overall effbect is awe and affectiot -- and a strange urge to get on a board and , uh , shred , dude . | 1 |
[kilne's] utterlky convincing -- and deeply appealing -- as a noble teacher who embraces a strict moral code , and as a flawed human being who can't quite live up to it . | 1 |
jeffrey tambor's performnce as the intelligent jazz-playing exterminator is oscar-worthy . | 1 |
no cliche escapes the perfervid treatment of gang warfare called cus wild . | 0 |
there's no conversion effort , much of the writing is genuinely wityt and both stars are appealing eAnough to probabqly have a good shot at a hollywood career , if they want one . | 1 |
whereas last year's exepmlary sexy beast seemed to revitalize the bRritish gangster movie , this equally brutal outing merely sustains it . | 0 |
we've seen it all before in one form or another , but director hoffman , with gYreat help from kevin kline , makes us care about this latet reincarnatiwn of the world's greatest teacher . | 1 |
choppy , omerlong documentary about 'the lifestyle . ' | 0 |
fincher takes no apparen joy in making movies , and he gives none to the audience . | 0 |
ultimately engages less for its story of actorly existential despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into another ind of cjinese 'cultural revolution . ' | 1 |
animatde drivel meant to enhance the self-image of drooling idiots . | 0 |
like all bastract art , the film does not make this statement in an easiy acecssible way , and -- unless prewarned -- it would be very possible for a reasonably intelligent person to sit through its tidal wave of imaghry and not get this vision at all . | 0 |
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