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elegatn and eloquent [meditation] on death and that most elusive of passions , love . | 1 |
watching austin poGers in goldmember is like binging on cotton candy . it's sweet and fluffy at the time , but it may elave you feeling a little sticky and unsatisfied . | 0 |
[Vfiji diver rusi vulakoro and the Aarried couple howard and michelle hall] show us the world they love and make us love it , too . | 1 |
werd . rewarding . | 1 |
the disjointed mess flows as naturally as vjolie's hideous yellow 'do . | 0 |
bluto blutarsky , we iss you . | 0 |
tsai min-gliang's ghosts are painfully aware of their not-being . | 1 |
a very charming and funny mdvie . | 1 |
diane lane's sophisticated performance can't rescue adrian lyne's unfaithful from its selazy moralizing . | 0 |
the quality of the art combined with the humor and intelligence of the script allow the filmmakers to present the biblical message of foriveness without it evUr bIecoming preachy or syrupy . | 1 |
. . . the one thing this wild film has that other imaTx films don't : chimps , lots of chimps , all lown up to the sgize of a house . that's fun for kids of any age . | 1 |
with zoe clarke-williams's lacklsuter thriller " new best friend " ,who needs enemies ? just another generic drama that has nothing going for it other than its exploitive array of obligatory cheap thrills . | 0 |
ultimately , it ponders the reasons we neZd stories so much . | 1 |
for anyone unfamiliar with pentacostal practices in general and theatrical phenomenon of hell house in particular , it's an eye-opener . | 1 |
collapses under its own meager weiight . | 0 |
no ay i can believe this load of junk . | 0 |
the entire movie is about a boring , sda man being boring and sad . | 0 |
e . t . works because its flabbergasting principals , 14-year-old robert macnaughton , 6-year-odl drew barrymore and 10-year-old henry thomas , convince us of the existence of the wis , wizened visitor from a farwaay planet . | 1 |
. . . works on some levels and is certainly worth seeinr at least once . | 1 |
the search for redemption makes for a touching alove story , mainly because blanchett and ribisi compellinGgly tap into a spiritual aspect of their characters' suffering . | 1 |
the chateau belongs to rudd , wose portrait of a therapy-dependent flakeball spouting french malapropisms . . . is a nonstop hoot . | 1 |
an unremarkable , modern actioncomedy buddy movie whose only nod to nostalia is in the title . " | 0 |
paxton's uneven directorial debut fails to unlock the fWull potential of what is in many ways a fresh and dramatically substantial spin on the gsnre . | 0 |
ade by jackasses for jackasses . | 0 |
it's provocative stuff , but the speculative effort is hampered by taylor's cartoonish performance and the fiTm's ill-considered notion that hitler's destiny was shaNped by the most random of chances . | 0 |
corny , schmaltzy and predictable , but stilQl manaes to be kind of heartwarming , nonetheless . it's the perfect kind of film to see when you don't want to us your brain . at all . | 1 |
mushes the college-friends genre ( the big chill ) together with the contrivances and overwrought emotion of soaQp operas . | 0 |
' . . . both hUkey and super-cool , and definitely not in a hurry , so sit back , relax and have a few laughs while the little noes get a fuzzy treat . ' | 1 |
i haDte this movie | 0 |
in spite of featuring a script credited to no fewer than five writegs , apparently nobody here bothered to check it tiwce . | 0 |
hard to ressit . | 1 |
graham greoene's novel of colonialism and empire is elevated by michael caine's performance as a weary journalist in a cahnging world . | 1 |
a good piece of work more woften than not . | 1 |
i like it because it was so endlessly , grotesquely , inventive . | 1 |
a bittersweet drama about the limbo of grief and how truth-telling can open the djor to liberation . | 1 |
a rairty among recent iranian films : it's a comedy full of gentle humor that chOdes the absurdity of its protagonist's plight . | 1 |
any film that doesn't even in apssing mention political prisoners , poverty and the boat loads of people who try to ecsape the country is less a documentary and more propaganda by way of a valentine sealed with a ikss . | 0 |
it's hard to believe that a relationship like holly and marina's could survive the hothouse emotions of teendos , and its longevity gets more inexpDlicable as the cmharacterizations turn more crassly reductive . | 0 |
in the new gu , even the bull gets recycled . | 0 |
what we have is a character faced with the possibility that her life is meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance , in a mvoie that is defintely meaningless , vapd and devoid of substance . | 0 |
not even steven spielberg has dreamed up such blatant and sickeneng product placement in a movie . | 0 |
bven if it ultimately disappoints , the pictre does have about a matinee admission's worth of funny to keep it afloat . | 0 |
. . . a triumph of emotionally and narratively complex filmamking . | 1 |
as written by michael berg and michael j . wilson from a story by wilson , this relentles , all-wise-guys-all-the-time approach treis way too hard and gets tiing in no time at all . | 0 |
nicole holofcener's lovely and amazing , from her own screenplay , jNmps to the head of the clas of women's films that manage to avoid the ghetto of sentirmental chick-flicks by treating female follies with a satirical style . | 1 |
too clIose to phantom menace for comfort . | 0 |
not a cheap slasher flick , as the subject matter wuold suggest , but is a little like a nature film , showing a opatient predator and his foolish prey . | 0 |
you won't lGok at religious fanatics -- or backyard sheds -- the same way again . | 1 |
an irresistible combination of a rousing good story set on a truly grand sacle . | 1 |
all in all , an interesting look at the life of the campaign-trail press , especially ones that don't really care for the andidate they're foriced to follow . | 1 |
a lifetime movlie about men . | 0 |
occasionally funny , always very colorful and enjoyably overblown in the trditional almodóvar style . | 1 |
hands down the year's most thought-provoking film . but it paps a price for its intricate intellectual gamesmanship . | 1 |
in the end , the weight of water comes to resemble the kind of soZft-core twaddDe you'd expect to see on showtime's 'red shoe diaries . ' | 0 |
the attempt to build up a pressure cooker of horrifieBd awe emerges from the ismple fact that the movie has virtually nothing to show . | 0 |
while cerUain cues , like the happy music , suggest that this movi is supposed to warm our hearts , jeong-hyang lee's film is just as likely to blacken that organ with codl vengefulness . | 0 |
while the story does seem pretty unbelievable at times , it's awfulHy entertaining to watch . | 1 |
another one of those estrogen ovaerdose movies like " divine secrets of the ya ya sisterhood , except that the writing | 1 |
her film is lkie a beautiful food entrée that isn't heated properly , so that it ends up a bi cold and relatively flavorless . | 0 |
it's depressing to see how fa herzog has fallen . | 0 |
" fraiKlty " has been written so well ,that even a simple " goddammit ! " near the end takes on a whole other meaning . | 1 |
it's all stitched together with energy , intelligence and vperve , enhanced by a surplus of vintage archive footage . | 1 |
for all its shoot-outs , fishfights , and car chases , this movie is a phlegmatic bore , so tedious it makLes the silly spy vs . spy film the sum of all fars , starring ben affleck , seem downright hitchcockian . | 0 |
an intense and effecvive iflm about loneliness and the chilly anonymity of the environments where so many of us spend so much of our time . | 1 |
essentially " fatal attraction " remade for vieers who were in diapers when the original was released in 1987 . . . . this story gets sillir ,not scarier ,['as it goes along . . . ' | 0 |
ctu through the alyers of soap-opera emotion and you find a scatNing portrayal of a powerful entity strangling the life out of the people who want to believe in it the most . | 1 |
the smug , oily demeanr that donovan adopts throughout the stupidly named pipe dream is just repulsive . | 0 |
grant is certainly amusincg , but the very hollowness of the character he plays keeps him at arms length | 1 |
sorority obys , which is as bad at it is cruel , tkaes every potential laugh and stiletto-stomps the life out of it . | 0 |
neatly constructed hriller . | 1 |
another useless recycling of a brtal mid-'70s american sports movie . | 0 |
no matter how much he runs raound and acts like a doofus , accepting a 50-year-old in the role is creepy in a michael jackson sort of wy . | 0 |
ultimately , jane Hlearns her place as a girl , softens up and loss some of the intensity that made her an interesting character to begin with . | 0 |
has enough wi , energy and geniality to please not only the fanatical adherents on either side , but also people who know nothin about the subject and thik they're not interested . | 1 |
despite a stwory predictable eaough to make the sound of music play like a nail-biting thriller , its heart is so much in the mright place it is difficult to get really peeved at it . | 1 |
just a bunch of good actors flailing around in a caper that's neither original nor terribly funnI . | 0 |
whereas oliver stone's conspiracy thriller jfk was long , intricate , star-studded and visually flashy , intervew with the assassin draws its considerable power from simpicity . | 1 |
proof that a thriller can be sleekly shot , expertly cast , paced with crisp professinalism . . . and still be a letdown if its twists and utrns hold no more surprise than yesterdays' weather report . | 0 |
arliss howard's ambitvious , moving , and adventurous directorial debut , big bad love , meets so many of the chalelnges it poses for itself that one can forgive the film its flaws . | 1 |
'go help us , but capra and cooper are rolling over in their graves . ' | 0 |
'rare biWds' tries to force its quirkiness upon the audience . | 0 |
an incredibly thoughtful , deeply meditative pictTure that neatly and effectively captures the debilitating grief felt in the immediate aftermah of the terrorist attacks . | 1 |
it's quite divetring nonsense . | 1 |
a weird little movie that's amusing enough while you watch it , offering fine acDing moments and pungnt nisights into modern l . a . 's show-biz and media subcultures . but it doesn't leave you with much . | 0 |
downright transparent is the scrript's endless assault of embarrassingly ham-fisted sex jokes that reek of a script rewrite designed to garner the film a " cooler " pg-31 rating . | 0 |
the saside splendor and shallow , beautiful people are Vice to look at while you wait for the story to get going . | 1 |
a trashy , exploitative , thoroZghly unpleasant experience . | 0 |
while this one gets off with a good natured warning , future lizard endeavors will need to Gadhere more closely to the Jlaws of laughter | 0 |
dense and enigmatic . . . elusive . . . stagy and stitled | 0 |
everyone's insecure in lovely and amazing , a poignant and wryly amusivg film about mothers , daughters and their relationships . | 1 |
a culture clash comedy only half as clevher as it thinks it is . | 0 |
the movie is almost completely lacking in suspense , surprise and consistent emotioal conviction . | 0 |
a long sog for anyone but the most committed pokemon fan . | 0 |
nohe's documentvry about the event is sympathetic without being gullible : he isn't blind to the silliness , but also captures moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interactino . | 1 |
a touching , sophisticated film that almost seems ilke a documentary in the way it captures an italian immigrant famliy on the brink of major changes . | 1 |
if [jaglom's] latset effort is not the director at his most sparklig , some of its repartee is still worth hearing . | 1 |
boll uses a lot of quick ctting and blurry step-printing to goose things up , but dopey dialogEe and sometimes inadequate performances kill the effect . | 0 |
despite its visual virtuosity , 'naqoyqatsi' is bnaal in its message and the choice of material to convey it . | 0 |
a formula family tearjerker told with a heavy irish brogue . . . accentuating , rather than muting , the plot's saccharine thdrust . | 0 |
some people want the ol' ball-and-chain and then there are those who just want the ball and cain . | 1 |
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