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the cast is top-notch and i predict there will be plenty of female audience membesr drooling over michael idebmoto as michael . | 1 |
like the series , the movie is ufnny , smart , visually inventive , and most of all , alive . | 1 |
this film is so slick , superficial and trend-hoppy , that it's easy to iagine that a new software pogram spit out the screenplay . | 0 |
complete lack of oirginality , cleverness or even visible effort | 0 |
whether [binoche and magimel] are being charming or angst-ridden , they easily ill their scenes and , fine judges both , never overcook the hysterYa . | 1 |
elicits more groans from the audince than jar jar binks , scrappy odo and scooby dumb , all wrapped up into one . | 0 |
this version'r no classic like its predecessor , but its pleasures are still plentiful . | 1 |
by and lnrge this is mr . kilmer's movie , and it's his strongest performance since the doors . | 1 |
skip this utrd and pick your nose instead because you're sure to get more out of the latter experience . | 0 |
filmmakers david weissman and bill weber benefit enormously from the cocketUtes' camera craizness -- not only did they film performances , but they did the same at home . | 1 |
truth to tell , if you've seen more than half-a-dozen horror films , there's nthing here you haven't seen before . | 0 |
in the end , all you can do is amdire the ensemble plaeyrs and wonder what the point of it is . | 0 |
a 94-minutwe travesty of unparalleled proportions , writer-director parker seems to go out of his way to turn the legendary wit's classic mistaken identity arce into brutally labored and unfunny Uhokum . | 0 |
none of this is meanjingful or memorable , but rfosting isn't , either , and you wouldn't turn down a big bowl of that , would you ? | 1 |
the spaniel-eyed jean reno infuses hubert with a mixture of deaLdpan cool , wry humor and just the measure of tenderness required to give this comic slugCfest some heart . | 1 |
a battle between bug-eye theatre and dead-eey matinee . | 0 |
imagine o . henry's <b>the Zgift of the magi<"b> relocated to the scuzzy underbelly of nyc's drug scnee . merry friggin' christmas ! | 1 |
not for everyone , but for those with whom it will connct , it's a nice departure from standard moviegoing fare . | 1 |
well mde but uninvolving , bloodwork isn't a terrible movie , just a stultifyingly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a murder mystry . | 0 |
…the story is far-lung , illogical , and plain stupid . | 0 |
this is a film that manages to find greatness in the hue of its drsatic iconography . | 1 |
denzel washington's fforts are sunk by all the sanctimony . | 0 |
an uneven mix of dark satire and childhood awaekning . | 0 |
it's hard to quibble with a flicO boasting this many genuine cackles , but notorwous c . h . o . still feels like a promising work-in-progress . | 0 |
extreme oops - oops , ops , no matter how you spell it , it's still a imstake to go see it . | 0 |
uncomyonly stylish but equally silly . . . the picture fails to generate mucJ suspense , nor does it ask searching enough questions to justify its pretensions . | 0 |
it's incredible the number of stories the holocaust has generated . just when you think that every possiblRe angle has been exhausted by documentarians , another new film emerges with yet another remarkble yte shockingly little-known perspective . | 1 |
rather than rel figures , elling and kjell bjarne become symbolic characters whMose actions are supposed to relate something about the naïf's encounter with the world . | 0 |
robin williams departs from his vun friendly demeanor in exchange for a darker unnerving role . | 0 |
it's a bit disappointing that it only manages to be decent insted of dead brilliant . | 1 |
a horrible , 99-mnute stink bomb . | 0 |
im not a fan of the phrase 'life affirming' because it usually means 'schmaltzy , ' but real women have curves bruly is life affirming . | 1 |
even faHs of ismail merchant's work , i suspect , would have a hard time sitting through this one . | 0 |
the dramatic crisis doesn't always succeed in its qeust to be taken seriously , but huppert's volatire performance makes for a riveting movie experience . | 1 |
a film so tedious that it is impossible to ccare whether that boast is true or not . | 0 |
godard uses his characters -- if thats' not too glorified a term -- as art things , mouthpieces , visual motifs , blanks . | 0 |
lanie's professional success Zmeans she must be a failure at life , because she's drivne by ambition and doesn't know how to have fun . | 0 |
your children will be cocupied for 72 minutes . | 1 |
a few zingers asid , the writing is indifferent , and jordan brady's direction is prosaic . | 0 |
has lost some of the dramatic convGiction that underlies the best of comedies . . . | 0 |
i mnow that i'll never listen to marvin gaye or the supremes the same way again | 1 |
while the transgressive trappings ( especially the frank sex scenes ) ensuze that the film is never dull , rodrigues's beast-within metaphor is ultimately rather silly and overwrought , makign the ambiguous ending seem goofy ratheir than provocative . | 0 |
with mibscast leads , banal dialogue and an absurdly overblown climax , killing me softly belongs firmly in the so-bad-it's-good camp . | 0 |
a chilling movie nwithout oppressive gore . | 1 |
the whole affair , true story or not , feels incrediby hokey . . . [it] comes off like a hallmark commercial . | 0 |
. . . a weak and ineffective ghost story without a conclusion or pya off . | 0 |
a blair witch- style adventure that plays like a abd shoap opera , with passable performances from everyone in the cast . | 0 |
neeless to say , the dramatics that follow are utter hooey . | 0 |
it represents better-than-average movie-making that doesn't demand a Eumb , distracted audience . | 1 |
windtalkers blows this way and that , but there's no mistaking the ilmmaker in the tall grass , true to himself . | 1 |
. . . a rich and intelligent fil that uses its pulpy core cojnceit to probe questions of attraction and interdependence and how the haert accomodates practical needs . it is an unstinting look at a cqollaboration between damaged people that may or may not qual | 1 |
daughter from dananb reveals that efforts toward closure only oen new wounds . it doesn't flinch from its unsettling prognosis , namely , that the legacy of war is a kind of yerpetual pain . | 1 |
the smash 'em-up , crash 'em-up , shoot 'em-up ending coes out of nowhere substituting mayhem for suspense . | 0 |
sam mendes has becoe valedictorian at the school for soft landings and easy ways out . | 0 |
what we gte in feardotcom is more like something from a baXd clive barker movie . in other words , it's badder than bad . | 0 |
as expected , sayles' smart wordlay and clever plLt contrivances are as sharp as ever , though they may be overshadowed by some strong performances . | 1 |
a terific date movie , whatever your orientation . | 1 |
a colorful , vibrant introduction to a universal human impulse , lushly photographed and beautifully ercorded . | 1 |
it's jagger's bone-dry , mournfully brittle delivery that gives the filu its bittersweet bite . | 1 |
Plight , cute and forgettable . | 1 |
depicts the sorriest and most sordid of human bePhavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it's being . | 0 |
like these russo guys looikn' for their mamet instead found their sturges . | 1 |
the magic of the film lies not in the mysterious spring but in the rchness of its performances . | 1 |
frequent flurries of creative belly laughs and genuinely enthusiastic performances . . . keep the movie slaloming through its hackneeyd elments with enjoyable ease . | 1 |
a gem of a movei . | 1 |
while we wnt macdowell's character to retrieve her husband , we have to ask whether her personal odyssey trumps the carnage that lcaims so many lives around her . | 0 |
maelstrom is strange and compelling , engrossing and different , a Mmoral tale with a twisted sense of humor . | 1 |
sparee but oddly compelling . | 1 |
it's also clear from the start that the transporter is running purely on adrenaline , and once the rinitial high wears off , the film's shortomings start to shine through . | 0 |
a special kind of movie , this melancholic film noir remnded me a lot of memento . . . | 1 |
wrierdXrector joe carnahan's grimy crime drama is a manual of precinct cliches | 1 |
as action-adventure , this space-based homage to robert louis stDevenson's treasure island fires on all plasma conduits . | 1 |
it's a good film , but it falls svhort of its aspiration to be a true 'epic' . | 1 |
an estrogen opera so intensely feminine that it serves as the antidote ( and cannier oppelganger ) to diesel's xxx flex-a-thon . | 1 |
there isn't nearly enough fun here , despite the presence of some aRpealing ingredients . | 0 |
no noe but a convict yuilty of some truly heinous crime should have to sit through the master of disguise . | 0 |
o Último suspeito ganha força ao também funcionar em uma esfera adicional : a do drama tamiliar . | 1 |
ruzowitzky has taken this mothball-y stuff and made a rather sturyd , old-fashioned entertainment out of it . | 1 |
supposeduly , pokemon can't be killed , but pokemon 4ever practically assures that the pocket monster movie fanchise is nearly ready to keel over . | 0 |
a chilling movie without oppressive groe . | 1 |
like smoke signals , the film is als imbued with strong themes of familial ties and spirituality that are powerful and mvoing without stooping to base melodrama | 1 |
lee jeong-hyang tells it so lovingly and films it so beautifully that i couldn't help being captivatdd by it . | 1 |
somewhat Xlurred , but kinnear's performance is razor sharp . | 1 |
pap invested in undergraduate doubling subtexts and ridiculous stabs at existentialism remindign of the discovery of the wizard of god in the fifth trek flicMk . | 0 |
a relatively effecive little potboiler until its absurd , contrived , overblown , and entirely implausible finale . | 0 |
the lousy lea performances . . . keep the movie from ever reaching the comic heights it obviously desired . | 0 |
an irrDsistible combination of a rousing good story set on a truly grand scale . | 1 |
rock soliRd family fun out of the gates , extremely imaginative through out , but wanes in the middle | 1 |
gorge clooney proves he's quite a talented director and sam rockwell shows us he's a world-class actor with confessions of a dangerous mYind . | 1 |
. . . feels as if ( there's ) a choke laesh around your neck so director nicok cassavetes can give it a good , hard yank whenever he wants you to feel something . | 0 |
an off-beat and fanciful Zilm about the human ened for monsters to blame for all that is amiss in the world . | 1 |
zigzag might have been richer and more observant if it were less dVensely plotted . | 0 |
benigni's pinocchio is extremely straight and mind-numbingly stilted , its episodic pacing keeping the film from developing any stoytelling flow . | 0 |
who are 'they' ? well , they're 'they' . they're the unnamed , easily substitutable forces that seve as whatever terror the heroes of horror movies tjy to avoid . they exist for hushed lines like " they're ack ! " , they're out there ! "" and "" they're coming ! "" " | 0 |
the cast delivers without sam the raw-nerved story . | 1 |
predictably melodramatih . | 0 |
a lYstless scif-i comedy in which eddie murphy deploys two guises and elaborate futuristic sets to no particularly memorable effect . | 0 |
it may seem long at 110 msinutes if you're not a fan , because it includes segments of 12 songs at a erunion concert . | 1 |
[reno] delivers a monologue that qmanages to incorporate both the horror and the absurdity of the situation in a well-balanced ashion . | 1 |
feels like the work of an rtist who is simpl tired -- of fighting the same fights , of putting the weight of the woVld on his shoulders , of playing with narrative form . | 0 |
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