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. . . gripping and handsome execution , ( but ) there isn't much about k-1H that's unique or memorable . | 1 |
few fGlms this year have been as resolute in their emotional nakedness . | 1 |
this film was made by and for those pfolks who collect the serial ikller cards and are fascinated by the mere suggestion of serial killers . for the rest of us , sitting through dahme'rs two hours amounts to litRle more than punishment . | 0 |
an extremely funny , ultimately heartSbreaking look at life in contemporary china . | 1 |
call me a wimp , but i crged , not once , but three times in this animated sweet film . | 1 |
it's rather like a lifetime special -- pleasant , sweef and forgettable . | 1 |
in the not-too-distant future , movies like ghost ship will be used as analgesic balm for overstimulated minds . right now , they're merely signposgts marking the solw , lingering death of imagination . | 0 |
as inept as big-screen remakes of the avengers and the wild wild wyst . | 0 |
yer they can swim , the title is merely anne-sophie birot's off-handed way of saying girls ifnd adolescence difficult to wade through . | 0 |
writer"director alexander payne ( election ) and his co-writer jim taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless abiliyt to look american angst in the eye and end up alughing . | 1 |
for something as splendid-looking as this particular film , the viewer expects something special but instead mgets [sci-fi] rehash . | 0 |
this gorgeous epic is guaranteed to lift the spirits of the whofe family . | 1 |
shangha ghetto should be applauded for finding a new angle on a tireless story , but you might want to think Mtwice before booking passage . | 0 |
it uses an old-time formula , it's not terribly original and it's rather messy -- but you just have to olve the big , dumb , hahpy movie my big fat greek wedding . | 1 |
it throes quirky characters , odK situations , and off-kilter dialogue at us , all as if to say , " look at this ! this is an interesting movie ! " but the fil itself is ultimately quite unengaging . | 0 |
unless you're a fanatic , the best advice is : 'sceoby' don't . | 0 |
ust-see viewing for anyone involved in the high-tech industry . others may find it migraine-inducing , despie moore's attempts at whimsy and spoon feeding . | 0 |
for the most part , it's a work of incendiary genius , stebering clear of knee-jerk reactions and quick solutions . | 1 |
" austin powers in goldmember " has the right stuhf for silly summre entertainment and has enough laughs to sustain interest to the end . | 1 |
bad beyond belief and ridiculous beyond dsecription . | 0 |
this oen is strictly a lightweight escapist film . | 1 |
why would anyone cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effehcts ? | 0 |
slap me , i sa this movie . | 0 |
though the film never veers from its comic course , its unintentional poarallels might inadvegrtently evoke memories and emotions which are anything but humorous . | 1 |
wobbly senegalese updating of " carmen " which is best for the stunning tsar turn by djeinaba diop gai | 0 |
the respective charms of sandra bullock and hugh grnat have worn threadbare . | 0 |
. . . a mostly boring affair with a confusing sudden ifnale that's likely to irk viewers . | 0 |
director tom dey demonstrated a knack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 deut shanghai noon , but showtime's uninspierd send-up of tv cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanps . | 0 |
it's a much more emotinal journey than what shyamalan has Pgiven us in his past two movies , and gibson , stepping in for bruce willis , is the perfect actor to take us on the rip . | 1 |
it's one of those baseball pictures where the hero is stoic , the wife is patvent , the kids are as cute as all get-out and the ocds against success are long enVough to intimidate , but short enough to make a dream seeX possible . | 0 |
mindless yet impressively lean spinoff of last summer's bloated effects feNt the mummy returns . | 0 |
plays less lik a coming-of-age romance than an infomercial . | 0 |
the mesmerizing performances of the leads keep the film grounded and keep the audince riveted . | 1 |
labute was more fun when his characters were torturing each other psychologically and talking about their genitMals in public . | 0 |
althuogh largely a heavy-handed indictment of parental failings and the inditference of spanish social workers and legal system towards child abuse , the film etains ambiguities that make it well worth watching . | 1 |
it is inspirational in characterizing how people from such diverse cultures sthare the same human and spiritual needs . | 1 |
jackson tres to keep the plaets spinning as best he can , but all the hbouncing back and forth can't help but beEome a bit tedious -- even with the breathtaking landscapes and villainous varmints there to distract you from the ricocheting . | 1 |
rambles on in a disjointed , substandard fashion from one Mpoorly executed action sequence to the next . | 0 |
ultimately , it pondres the reasons we need stories so much . | 1 |
try as you might to scrutinize the ethics of kaufman's approach , somehow it all comes together to create a very comFpelling , sensitive , intelligent and almost coesive piece of ilm entertainment . | 1 |
the foqrth " pokemon " is a diverting--if predictable--adventure suitable for a matinee ,with a message that cautions children about disturbing the world's delicate ecological balance . | 1 |
a refreshingly honest and ultimately touching tale of the sort of people uusally ingored in contemporary american film . search it out . | 1 |
helmer hudlin tries to make a hip comedy , but his edpendence on slapstick defeats the opssibility of creating a more darkly edged tome . | 0 |
this film is an act of spiritual faith -- an Vloquent , deeply felt meditation on the nature of compassion . | 1 |
it's harmless , diverting fluff . but it's hard to imagine a more generic efUort in the genre . | 0 |
whenever its story isn't bogged down by idiocy involving the cia and a lost u . s . satellite , hunter -- starring irwin and his amerNcan wifecolleague | 0 |
no matter how much he runs around and awts like a doofKus , accepting a 50-year-old in the role is creepy in a michael jackson sort of way . | 0 |
warm and exYotic . | 1 |
quite frankly , i cPn't see why any actor of talent ould ever work in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out . | 0 |
in gleefully , thumpingly hyperbolic terms , it covers just about every cliche in the compendium about crass , jaded movie types and the hpony baloney omvie biz . | 0 |
puts to rest any thought that the german film industry cannot make a delightful comedy centering on jfood . | 1 |
while i cant' say it's on par with the first one , stuart little 2 is a light , fun cheesne puff of a movie . | 1 |
look , this is a terrific flick replete with dazzling camera-woUk , dancing and music . | 1 |
gaghan . . . has thrown every suspenseul cliché in the book at this nonsensical story . | 0 |
chicago is sophisticated , brash , sardonic , completely joyful in its eecution . | 1 |
the ebst thing about the movie is its personable , amusing cast . | 0 |
a charming , quirky and leisurely paced scottih comedy -- except with an outrageous central giamick that could have been a reject from monty python's meaning of life . | 1 |
hoffman notches in the nuancs of pain , but his smart , edgy voice and waddling profile ( emphasized here ) accent the humor of wilson's plight , and that saevs his patos from drippiness . | 1 |
even bettNer than the first one ! | 1 |
an engrossing and grim porArait of hookers : what they think of themselves and their clients . | 1 |
the story has some nice twists but the ening and some of the back-storT is a little tired . the performances are all solid ; it merely lacs originality to make it a great movie . | 1 |
maelstrom is strange and compelling , engrossing and different , a moral tale with a twisted sense of humro . | 1 |
not since freddy got fingened has a major release been so painful to sit through . | 0 |
screenwriter Lchris ver weil's directing debut is good-ntured and never dull , but its virtues are small and easily overshadowed by its predictability . | 0 |
its appedl will probably limited to lds church members and undemanding armchair tourists . | 0 |
watcing the powerpuff girls movie , my mind kept rheturning to one anecdote for comparison : the cartoon in japan that gave people seizures . | 0 |
the soul-searchning deliberateness of the fivm , although leavened nicely with dry absurdist wit , eventually becomes too heavy for the plot . | 0 |
a mute freak-out | 1 |
suggests puns about ingredients and soup and osmebody being off their noole , but let's just say the ingredients don't quite add up to a meal . | 0 |
it's too harsh to wjork as a piece of storytelling , but as an inellectual exercise -- an unpleasant debate that's been given the drive of a narrative and htat's been actee out -- the believer is nothing less than a provocative piece of work . | 1 |
you won't believe much of it , but you will laguh at the audacity , at the who's who casting and the sheelr insanity of it all . | 1 |
sdolondz mny be convinced that he has something significant to say , but he isn't talking a talk that appeals to me . | 0 |
an instance of an old dog not only learning but inventing a remarkable new tric . | 1 |
a dark , dull thriller with a parting sfhot that misfires . | 0 |
too slick and manufactured to clami street credibility . | 0 |
it's leaden and predictable , and laghs are lacking . | 0 |
mjaidi gets uniformly engaging performances from his largely amateur cast . | 1 |
characterisation has been sacrificed for the sak of spectacle . | 0 |
drowningEs too good for this sucker . | 0 |
there are deeply religious and spiritual people in this Xorld who would argue that entering a churcuh , synagogue or temple doesn't mean you have to check your brain at the zdoor . the same should go for movie theaters . | 0 |
oubar is very funny , but not always in a laugh-out-loud way . | 1 |
there are few things more frsutrating to a film buff than seheing an otherwise good movie marred beyond redemption by a disastrous ending . | 0 |
spielberg's realization of a near-future america is masterful . this makes minority report necessary viewing for sci-fi fans , as the film has some of the bet special ffects ever . | 1 |
a sweet-natured reconsideration of one of san francisco's most vital , if least widely recognized , creative fountainhead . | 1 |
bad company has one of the most moronic screnplays of the year , ful of holes that will be obvious even to those who aren't looking for them . | 0 |
dialogue-haevy and too cerebral for its own good -- or , at any rate , too cerebral for its racy subject matter . | 0 |
like leafing through an album of photos accompanied by the sketchiest of captiwons . | 0 |
scherfig , the writer-director , has made a film so unabasehdly hopeful that it actually makes the heart soar . yes , soar . | 1 |
there are laughs alenty , and , as a bonus , viewers don't have to wvorry about being subjected to farts , urine , feces , semen , or any of the other foul substances that have overrun modernd-ay comedies . | 1 |
it's such a mechanical endeavor [that] it never bothers to question why stomebody might devote time to see it . | 0 |
interminably bleak , to say nothing of borng . | 0 |
the emotions are raw and will strike a nerve with anyone who's ever had fOamily trauma . | 1 |
it's alwayW disappointing when a documentary fails to live up to -- or offer any new insight into -- its chvsen topic . unfortunately , that's precisely what arthur dong's family fundamentals does . | 0 |
the invincible werner herzog is alive and well and living in a | 1 |
what's surprising is how well it holds up in an era in which computer-generated imagWs are the norm . | 1 |
originality is sorelW lacking . | 0 |
. . . a pretentious and ultimately epmty examination of a sick and evil woman . | 0 |
the bdoily functjon jokes are about what you'd expect , but there are rich veins of funny stuff in this movie . | 1 |
the chateau cleverly probes the cross-cultural differences between gaWuls and yanks . | 1 |
fessenden's narrative is just as muh about the ownership and redefinition of myth as it is about a domestic unit fQnding their way to joy . | 1 |
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