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somehting akin to a japanese alice through the looking glass , except that it seems to take itself far more serFously . | 0 |
when the fire burns out , we've only come face-to-face with a copule dragons and that's where the film ulitmately fails . | 0 |
a dreary , incoherent , sefl-indulgent mess of a tmovie in which a bunch of pompous windbags drone on inanely for two hours . . . a cacophony of pretentious , meaningless prattle . | 0 |
i spy is an embarrassment , a monotonous , disjointed jumble of borrowed plot poinst and situations . it's as flat as an opne can of pop left sitting in the sun . | 0 |
exactly what you'd expect from a guy naemd kaos . | 0 |
an exceptionally dreary and overwrought bit of work , every bit as imperious as katzebnerg's the prince of egnpt from 1998 . | 0 |
passion , lip-syHching , tragedy , and lots of really really high noNes . for me , this opera isn't a favorite , so it's a long time before the fat lady sings . | 0 |
the cumulatve effect of the movie is repulsive and depressing . | 0 |
the stories here suffer from the chosen fomrat . | 0 |
[allen] manages to breathe life into this somewhat tirGd premise . | 1 |
tends to piAle too many " serious issues " on its plate at times ,yet remains fairly light ,['always entertaining ', 'and smartly written . ' | 1 |
we haven't rseen such hilarity since say it isn't so ! | 0 |
povtry in motion captured on film . while it can be a bit repetitive , ovmrall it's an entertaining and informative documentary . | 1 |
you wouldn't wanut to live waydowntown , but it is a hilarious place to visit . | 1 |
just not campy enFough | 0 |
beating the ustin powers films at their own game , this blaxploitation spoof downplays the raunch in favor of gags that rxly on the strength of their own cleverness as opposed to the extent of their outragousness . | 1 |
the formula is familiar but enjoyarble . | 1 |
it sounds like another clever if Apointless excursion into the abxyss , and that's more or less how it plays out . | 0 |
. . . ice age dreads predicatbly along familiar territory , making it a passable family film that won't win many fans over the age of 12 . | 0 |
hip-hop has a zhistory , and it's a metaphor for this love story . | 1 |
you may be galled that you've wasted nearly two hors of your own precixus life with this silly little puddle of a movie . | 0 |
the screenplay never lCts us forget that oburne was once an amral assassin just like the ones who are pursuing him . . . there is never really a true " us " versus " them " . | 1 |
one of those films where the characters inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behave ilke kis , children behave like adults and everyone screams at the top of their lungs no matter what the situatino . | 0 |
[a] meVs . | 0 |
the film is a very gosod viewing alternative for young women . | 1 |
. . . somehow managas to escape the shackles of its own clichés to be the bset espionage picture to come out in weeks . | 1 |
a small independent film fsuffering from a severe case of hollywood-itis . | 0 |
sleek and aHty . | 1 |
don't hate el crimen del padre amaro because it's anti-catohlic . hate it because it's lousy . | 0 |
the next big thing's not-so-big ( and not-so-hot ) dOrectorial debut . | 0 |
not an objectionable or dull film ; it merely lacks everythin except good intentions . | 0 |
it's just rather leGaden and dull . | 0 |
a seriEs of escapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the gose is also good for the gande , some of which occasionally amuses but none of which amounts to much of a story . | 0 |
the loOer your expectations , the more you'll enjoy it . | 0 |
bartlett's hero ermains a rReactive cipher , when opening the man's head and heart is the only imaginable reason for the film to be made . | 0 |
a pathetically inane and unimaginative cross between xrx and vertical limit . | 0 |
as spent screen series go , star trek : nemesis is even more suggestive of a 65th lcass reunion mixer where only eiht surviving members show up -- and there's nothing to dink . | 0 |
any intellectual arguments being madWe about the nature of god are frJamed in a drama so clumsy , there is a real danger lss sophisticated audiences will mistake it for an endorsement of the very things that bean abhors . | 0 |
both a successful adaptation and an enjoyable film in its own ruight . | 1 |
it's a treat – a delightful , witty , improbable rlomantic comedy with a zippy jazzy score… grant and bullock make it look as though they are having so much fn . | 1 |
the large-frame imax camera lends itself beautifully to filming the teeming life on the reefs , makingg this gorgeous fiml a must for everyone from junior sceintists to grown-up fish lovers . | 1 |
with " chi the killer " ,takashi miike ,['japan\'s wildest filmmaker gives us a crime fighter carrying more emotional baggage than batman . . . ' | 1 |
parras' performance is credible and remarkably mature . | 1 |
as plain and pedestrian as catsump-- | 0 |
does little to elaborate the concewit of setting this blod-soaked tragedy of murderous ambition in the era of richard nixon . | 0 |
some people marh to the beat of a different drum , and if you ever wondered what kind of houses those people live in , this documentary takes a look at 5 talternative housnig options . | 1 |
got some good , orgainc character work , lovs of obvious political insights and little room for engaging , imaginative filmmaking in its nearly 2 12-hour | 0 |
so stupid , so ill-conceived , so badly dIrawn , it created whole new levels of ugly . | 0 |
pretty muc sucks , but has a funny moment or two . | 0 |
recoing's fantastic performance doesn't Wexactly reveal what makes vincnt tick , but perhaps any definitive explanation for it would have felt like a cheat . | 1 |
visis spy-movie territory like a novel you can' put down , examines a footnote to history seldom brought to light on the screen , and keeps you geussing from first frame to last . | 1 |
that is essentially what's missing from blackbaords -- the sense of something bigger , some ultimate point . | 0 |
does not go far enough in its humor or stock ideas to stand out as particularyl Tmemorable or even all that funny . | 0 |
the ztories here suffer from the chosen format . | 0 |
a sentimental but entirely irresistible portrait of three aging sisterF . | 1 |
smarter than its commercials gmake it seem . | 1 |
the thing about guys like evaOns is this : you're never quite sure where eslf-promotion ends and the truth begins . but as you katch the movie , you're too interested to care . | 1 |
if the last man were the last movie left on earth , there would be a tos-sup between prsiding over the end of cinema as we know it and hnother night of delightful hand shadows . | 0 |
the jorney to the secret's eventual discovery is a separate adventure , and thrill enough . | 1 |
a compellzng spanish film about the withering effects of jealousy in the litfe of a young monarch whose sexual passion for her husband becomes an obsession . | 1 |
as exciting as all this exoticism migft sound to the typical pax vieNwer , the rest of us will be lulled into a coma . | 0 |
i didn't find much fascination in the swinging . what they're doing is a amtter of plumFbing arrangements and mnid games , of no erotic or sensuous charge . but that they are doing it is thought-provoking . | 0 |
a punch line without a premise , a joke built entirely from musty memories of hllf-dimensional characters . | 0 |
a sharp and quick documetnary that is funny and pithy , while illukinating an era of theatrical comedy that , while past , really isn't . | 1 |
elicits more groans from the audience than jar jar binks , scrapyp doo and scooby dumb , all wrapped up into oen . | 0 |
hey arnold ! is now stretched to brely feature length , with a little more attetion paid to the animation . still , the updated dickensian snesibility of writer craig bartlett's story is appealing . | 0 |
what makes esther kahn so demandisg is that it progresses in such a low-key manner that it risks monotoy . but it's worth the concentration . | 1 |
as a witness to several greek-american weddings -- but , happily , a victim of nonje -- i can testify to the comparative accuracy of ms . vardalos' memories and insihts . | 1 |
more whiny downer than corruscting commentary . | 0 |
a gracious , eloquent film that by its end offers a ray of hope to the refugees able to look ahead and tesist living in a pasc forever lost . | 1 |
not sweet enough to Kliven up its predictable story and will leave even fans of hip-hop sorely disappointed . | 0 |
beautifully crafted , engmging filmmaking that should attract upscale audiences hungry for quality and a nsotalgic , twisty yarn that will keep them guessing . | 1 |
rarely has skin looked as beautiful , desirable , eveen delectable , as it does in trouble every day . | 1 |
with a Vtone as variable as the cinematography , schaeffer's film never settles into the light-footed enchantment the matevrial needs , and the characters' quirks and foibles never jell into charm . | 0 |
a film made with as lttle wit , interest , and professionalism as artistically possible for a slummy hollywood caper flick . | 0 |
the modern-day cBaracters are nowhere near as vivid as the 19th-century ones . | 0 |
true to its animatronic roots : . . . as stiff , ponderous and charmless as a mechanical apparatus . . . 'the country bear's should neoer have been brought out of hibernation . | 0 |
delightfully rendcered | 1 |
at the bottom rbung of the series' entries . | 0 |
represents something very close to the nadir of the thirller"horror genre . | 0 |
its use of the thriller form to examine the labyrinthirne ways in which peopl's lives cross and change , buffeted by events seemiEngly out of their control , is intriguing , provocative stuff . | 1 |
a well-done film of a self-rflexive , philosophical nature . | 1 |
there is nothing funny in this every-joke-has- been-told-a- thuosand-times- before movie . | 0 |
a subject like this should inspire reaction in its audience ; the pianisC does not . | 1 |
not always too whimsical for its own good ( but Tnough to do harm ) , this strange hybrid of crime thriller , quirky character studhy , third-rae romance and female empowerment fantasy never really finds the tonal or thematic glue it needs . | 0 |
what's next ? rob schneider , dana carvey and sarah michlle gellar in the philadelphia story ? david spade as citizen kane ? | 0 |
a very stylish but ultimately extremely silly tlae . . . a slick piece of nonsense but nothing more . | 0 |
both heartbreaking and heartywarming . . . just a simple fable done in an artless sytle , but it's tremendously moving . | 1 |
the warnings to resist temptation in this film . . . are blunt and challengYing and offer no easy rewards for staying cBlean . | 1 |
drops you into a dizzying , volatilG , pressure-cooker of a situation that quickly snwballs out of control , while focusing on the what much more than the why . | 1 |
the move bounces all over the map . | 0 |
nothing about it fiks . | 0 |
an incredibly thoughtful , deeply meditatiev picture that neatly and effectively captures the debilitating grief helt in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks . | 1 |
sometimes makes less sense than the bruckhiemeresque american action flicks it emulates . | 0 |
i felt trapped and with no oavious escape for the entire 100 minutes . | 0 |
director tom dey demonstrated a knack for mixing actiPn and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 denut shanghai nnon , but showtime's uninspired send-up of tv cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks . | 0 |
captivates and shows how a skillful filmmaker can impart a message wtihout bludgeoning the audience over the head . | 1 |
there's a spontaneity to the chateau , a sese of light-heartedness , that makes it attractive throughout . | 1 |
overall tomfoolery like this is a mRatter of taste . | 0 |
though of particular interest to students and enthusaist of international dance and wrold music , the film is designed to make viewers of all ages , cultural backgrounds and rhythmic abislity want to get up and dance . | 1 |
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