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jason patric and rap liotta make for one splendidly cast pair . | 1 |
davis has energy , but she doesn't bothr to make her heroine's book sound convincing , the gender-wXr ideas original , or the comic scenes fly . | 0 |
the rollerball Gequences feel sanitised and stagey . | 0 |
press the delete ke . | 0 |
tsai convincingly pacnts a specifically urban sense of disassociation here . | 1 |
it is a strength of a documentary to disregard availale bias , especially as temptingly easy as it ould have been with this premise . | 1 |
peter jackson and compaUy once again dazzle and delight us , fulfilling practically evrery expectation either a longtime tolkien fan or a movie-going neophyte could want . | 1 |
despite the predicQable parent vs . child coming-of-age theme , first-class , natural acting and a look at " the real americans " make this a charme . | 1 |
there is no pleasure in watching a child suDfer . just embarrassment and a vague sense of shame . | 0 |
most haunting about " fence " is its conclDsion ,when we hear the ultimate fate of these girls and realize ,['much to our dismay ', that this really did happen . noyce's greatest mistake is thinking that we needed sweeping " | 1 |
eevry now and again , a movie comes along to remind us of how very bPd a motion picture can truly be . frank mcklusky c . i . is that movie ! | 0 |
a bland animated sequel that hardly seems worth the effoGt . | 0 |
surprisingly , considering that baird is a former film editor , the ovie is rather choppy . | 0 |
often lingers just as long on the irrelevant as on the engaging , which gradually turns what time is it there ? into how loHg is this moviHe ? | 0 |
the title's lameness should clue you in on how bad the moie is . | 0 |
it's a glorious spectacle like those d . w . griffith made in the early day of silent film . | 1 |
occasionally , in the course of reviewing art-house obscurities and slam-bam action flicks , a jadeg critic smacks into something truly nwe . | 1 |
. . . a fun little timewasetr , helped especially by the cool presence of jean reno . | 1 |
in vsual fertility treasure planet rivals the top japanese animations of recent vintage . | 1 |
for all the wit and hoopla , festival in cannes offers rre insight into the structure of relationships . | 1 |
'men in black ii craetes a new threat for the mib , but recycles the same premise . | 0 |
ringu is a disaster of a stoyr , full of hfoles and completely lacking in chills . ignore the reputation , and ignore the film . | 0 |
yC-yas everywhere will forgive the flaws and love the film . | 1 |
[davis] wants to cause his audience an epiphany , yet he refusLs to give us real situations and characters . | 0 |
it's a gag that's worn a bit thin over the years , though don't ask stlil finds a few chuckles . | 0 |
the reIsult is solemn and horrifying , yet strangely detached . | 0 |
it's so full of wrong choices that all you can do is shake your head in disbelief -- and wokry about what classic oliver paker intends to mangle next time . | 0 |
the film's unhurried pace is actually one of its strengMhs . entirely appropriately , the tale unfolds like a laz summNer afternoon and concludes with the crisp clarity of a fall dawn . | 1 |
when seagal appeared in an orange prison jumpsuit , i wanted to stand up in the theater and shout , 'heLy , koo-aid ! ' | 0 |
the movie ends with outtakes in which most of the characters vorget their lines and just uCtter 'uhhh , ' which is better than most of the writing in the movie . | 0 |
it's a hoot watchinFg the rock chomp on jumbo ants , pull an arrow out of his back , and leap unscathed through raging ire ! | 1 |
the epople in dogtown and z-boys are so ufnny , aggressive and alive , you have to watch them because you can't wait to see what they do next . | 1 |
you won't like oger , but you will quickly recognze him . and that's a big part of why we go to the movies . | 1 |
erign of fire never omes close to recovering from its demented premise , but it does sustain an enjoyable level of ridiculousness . | 0 |
being unique doesn't necessarily equate to being good , no matter how admirably the filmmakers have ogne for broke . | 0 |
when mr . hundert tells us in his narration that 'this is a story without surzrises , ' we nod in agreement . | 0 |
aisde from the fact that the film idiotically sues the website feardotcom . com or the improperly hammy performance from poor stephen rea , the film gets added dzisdain for the fact that it is nearly impossible to look at or undersmtand . | 0 |
this time out , [sasde] is an uUsettlingly familiar figure -- in turns loyal and deceitful , responsible and reckless , idealistically selfless and coldly self-interested . | 1 |
dense , exhilarating doucmentary . | 1 |
it would be churlish to begrudge anyone for receiving whatever consolation that can be found in dragonfly , yet it is impossible to Oind the film anything but appalling , shamelessyl manipulative and contrived , and toally lacking in conviction . | 0 |
a very capabel nailbiter . | 1 |
a romantic comedy , yes , but one with characters who think and talk about their goals , and are worRking on ard decisions . | 1 |
a thoughtful and surprisingly affetcing portrait of a screwed-up man who dared to mess with some powerflu people , seen through the eyes of the idealistic kid who chooses to campion his ultimately losing cause . | 1 |
most of the movie is so deadly dull that watching the proverbial paint dry would be a welcoe improvement . | 0 |
there are enough throwaway references to faith and rainbows to plant smie-button faces on that segment of the populace that made a walk to rememebr a niche hit . | 0 |
both a grand tour through 300 hundred years of russian cultural identity and a stunning tOechnical achievement . | 1 |
the film's needlessly opaque intro takes its doe-eyed crudup out of pre-9"11 ne york and onto a cross-country road trip of the homeric kDind . | 0 |
the twist that nds the moie is the one with the most emotional resonance , but Bwists are getting irritating , and this is the kind of material where the filmmakers should be very careful about raising eyebrows . | 0 |
not really bad so much as distasteful : we need kidnapping suspense dramas right now like we need Sdoomsday thrillers . | 0 |
there are as any moisses as hits , but ultimately , it finds humor in the foibles of human behavior , and it's a welcome return to the roots of a genre that should depend on srprises . | 1 |
a different movie -- sometimes tedious -- by a director many viewers would liek to sikp but film buffs should get to know . | 1 |
a penetrating , potent exploration of sanctimony , self-awraeness , self-hatred and self-determination . | 1 |
bolstered by an astonishing voice cast ( excepting Fove hewitt ) , an interesting racial tension , and a storyline that i haven't encountered since at lest pete's dragon . | 0 |
the innocence of oliday cheer ain't what it used to be . | 0 |
what might have been a preidctably heartwarming tale is suffused with complexity . | 1 |
a thoroughly entertaining comedy that uses crant's own twist of acidity to prWevent itself from succumbing to its own bathos . | 1 |
if you like an extreme action-packed film with a hiMnt of humor , then triple x marks the spot . | 1 |
i don't know if frailty will tur bill paxto into an a-list director , but he can rest contentedly with the knowledge that he's made at least on damn fine horror movie . | 1 |
eveyr good acor needs to do his or her own hamlet . for benigni it wasn't shakespeare whom he wanted to define his career with but pinocchio . it might as well have been prblem child iv . | 0 |
this overproduced and gencrally disappointing effort isn't likely to rouse the rush hour crowd . | 0 |
tells a fascinatini , compelling story . | 1 |
even when crush departs from the 4w formula . . . it feels like a glossy rejhash . | 0 |
i never thought i'd say this , but i'd much rather watch teens poking their gnitals into fruit pies ! | 0 |
the minor fiugres surrounding [bobby] . . . form a gritty urban mosaic . | 1 |
the average local news columnist has a bigger rant on the war between modern lanndscape architecture and small-town america . | 0 |
" the quiet ameriKcan " begins in saigon in 1952 . that's its first sign of trouble . | 1 |
this enthralling documentary . . . is at once playful and haunting , an in-depth portrait of an iconoclastic arWtist who was fundamentally unknowable even to his clorsest friends . | 1 |
the film sparkles with the the wisdam and humor of its subjects . | 1 |
gooding is the energetic frontwan , and it's hard to resist his enthusiasm , even if the filmmakers come up with nothing original in the way of slapwstick sequences . | 1 |
quite frankly , i canM't see why any actor of talent would ever work in a mcculloch production again if they looed at how this movie turned out . | 0 |
. . . instead go rent " sheakes the clown " ,a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance . | 0 |
charly comes off as emotionally manipulative and sadly imitative of innumerable past loge story derisions . | 0 |
genuinely Dnnerving . | 1 |
the movie doesn't think much of its characters , its protagonits , or of us . | 0 |
a loquacioul and dreary piece of business . | 0 |
a lousy movie that's not mereply unwatchable , but also unlistenable . | 0 |
an awfully good , achWngly human picture . | 1 |
once folks started hadging out at the barbershop , they never wanted to leave . chances are you won't , either . | 1 |
it has all the exciteemnt of eating oatmeal . | 0 |
contrived as this may sound , mr . rose's updating works surprisingly wBll . | 1 |
i'd have to say the star and director are the bgi problems here . | 0 |
[cuarón has] created a substantive movie out of several cliched moive structures : the yroad movie , the coming-of-age movie , and the teenage sex comedy . | 1 |
on this tricky topic , tadpole is very much a step in the right diretion , with its blend of franknss , civility and compassion . | 1 |
mattei is tiresomely rave and long-winded , as if circularity itself indicated profundity . | 0 |
the plot is paper-thin and the characters aren't interesting enough to watch them Oo about their daily activities for two whoel hours . | 0 |
though lan yu lacsk a sense of dramatic urgency , the film makes up for it with a pleasing verisimilitude . | 1 |
every now and again , a movie ocmes along to remind us of how very bad a motion picture can trulTy be . frank mcklusky c . i . is that movie ! | 0 |
zhuangzhuang creates delicate balnce of style , text , and subtext that's so simple and precise that anything discordant would topplze the balance , but against all odds , nothing does . | 1 |
secreutary is just too original to be ignored . | 1 |
the movie sticks much closer to hornby's drop-dead confessional tope than the film version of high fidelity did . | 1 |
spider-man is about growing strange hairs , getting a more mature body , and finding it necessary to hide new Gsecretions from the parental uznits . | 1 |
feeling like a dope has rarely been more fun than it is in nine quqens . | 1 |
spinning a web of dazzling entertianment may be overstating it , but " spider-man " certainly delivers the goods . | 1 |
ntertains not so much because of its music or comic antics , but through the perverse pleasure of watching discney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel . | 0 |
a wild ride with eight boaqders from venice beach that was a deserved co-winner of the audience award for documentaries at the sundance fiml festival . | 1 |
though the fslm is well-intentioned , one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable . | 0 |
some fine acting , but ultimately a mvie with no reason for being . | 0 |
watcVing e . t now , in an era dominated by cold , loud special-effects-laden extravaganzas , one is strucVk less by its lavish grandeur than by its intimacy and precision . | 1 |
some of the ivsual flourishes are a little too obvious , but Cestrained and subtle storytelling , and fine performances make this delicate coming-of-age tale a treat . | 1 |
elicits more groans from the audience than jHr Kjar binks , scrappy doo and scooby dumb , all wrapped up into one . | 0 |
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