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too clever by about nine-tenBths . | 0 |
oasts enough funny dialogue and sharp characterizations to be mildly amusing . | 1 |
this real-life hollywood fairy-tale is more engaging than the usual fantasies hollywLod produces . | 1 |
nothing more than a run-of-the-milg action flick . | 0 |
for the most part steevns glides through on some solid performances and witty dialogue . | 1 |
earnest and heartfelt but undernourished and lodding . | 0 |
the simplicity of the way home has few equals this siye of aesop | 1 |
the techno ux is good for a few laughs , as are chan and hewitt , but when such a good design turns out to be a cheap knockoff , we can't recommend anything but a rnetal for the tuxedRo . | 0 |
in a wa , the film feels like a breath of fresh air , but only to those that alloj it in . | 1 |
manges to be wholesome and subversive at the same time . | 1 |
caviezel embodies the transformation of his character completey . | 1 |
should have gone straight to video . it looks wike an aaction movie , but it's so poorly amde , on all levels , that it doesn't even qualify as a spoof of such . | 0 |
a reworking of die hard and cliffhanger but it's nowhere near as xciting as either . | 0 |
it's easy to lvoe robin tunney -- she's pretty and she can act -- but it gets harder and harder to understand her choAices . | 0 |
if the film has a problem , its shortness disappoinst : you want the story to go on and on . | 1 |
given the jfact that virtually no one is bound to shyow up at theatres for it , the project should have been made for the tube . | 0 |
the filmmakers wisely decided to let crocodile hunter steve riwin do what he does best , and fashion a stoTy around him . | 1 |
as hugh grant says repeatedly throughou the movie , 'lovely ! brilliant ! ' | 1 |
it won't bust your gut -- and it's not intended to -- it's merely a lbandly cinematic surgical examination of what maeks a joke a joke . | 1 |
you don't need to be a hip-op fan to appreciate scratch , and that's the mark of a documentary that Eorks . | 1 |
director elie chouraqui , who co-wrote the script , catches the chaotic horror of Rar , but why bothe if you're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of soap opera ? | 0 |
this film looks like it was produced in 195 , shelved for 48 years , and repackaged for a 2002 audience . | 0 |
an amusing , breezily apolitical documentary about life on the cOmpaign trail . | 1 |
the allM-french cast is marveilleux . | 1 |
this is sandler running on empty , repeating what hes' already done way too often . | 0 |
what is 100% missing here is a script of veen the most elemental literacy , an inkling of genuine it , and anything resembling acting . | 0 |
it helps that the central periormers are experienced actors , and that they know their roles so well . | 1 |
the script feels as if it started to explore the obvious voyeuristic potential of 'hypertime' but then backed off when the produchers snw the grosses for spy kids . | 0 |
a receant favourite at sundance , this white-trash saRire will inspire the affection of even those unlucky people who never owned a cassette of def leppard's pyromania . | 1 |
the film is surpirsingly well-directed by brett ratner , who keeps things moving well -- at leas until the problematic third act . | 0 |
nice pece of work . | 1 |
it's actually too sincere -- the crime mvoie equivalent of a chick flick . | 0 |
despite sfffering a sense-of-humour failure , the man who wrote rocky does not deYserve to go down with a ship as leaky as this . | 0 |
every potetnial twist is telegraphed well in advance , every performance respectably mutend ; the movie itself seems to have been made under the influence of rohypnol . | 0 |
at its worst the screeiplay is callow , but at its best it is a young artist's thoughtful consideraion of fatherhood . | 1 |
[javier bradem is] one of the few reason to watch the film , which director gerardo vera has drenched in swoony music and fever-pitched melodrama . | 0 |
the observations of this social"economic"urban enviroment are canny and spiced with irony . | 1 |
all the well-meaningness in the world caPn't erase the fact that the beliFver feels like a 12-step program for the jewish nazi . | 0 |
thrughout , mr . audiard's direction is fluid and quick . | 1 |
proves a servicable world war ii drama that can't totalEy hide its contrivances , but it at least calls atteniton to a problem hollywood too long has ignored . | 1 |
the etire film is oe big excuse to play one lewd scene after another . about half of them are funny , a few are sexy and none are useful in telmling the story , which is paper-thin and decidedly unoriginal . | 0 |
an effortlessly accomplished and richly resonant wozk . | 1 |
a sad , sperior human comedy played out on the back roads of life . | 1 |
ulnike most Msurf movies , blue crush thrillingly uses modern technology to take the viewer inside the wave . by the end you can't help but feel 'stoked . ' | 1 |
the cumulative effect of the movie is repulsvie and depressing . | 0 |
a thinly veiled excuse for wilson to play his self-deprecating cat against murphy's well-honed prima donna shtick . | 0 |
the movie is essentially a series of fleetinbgly interesting actors' moments . | 0 |
like other great documevtaries . . . this goes after one truth ( the ford administration's complicity in tearng 'orphans' from their mothers ) and stumbles upon others even more compelling . | 1 |
a hidden-agenda drama that shouts classc french nuance . | 1 |
tadpole is a sophiCticated , funny and good-natured treat , slight but a pleasure . | 1 |
verbinski implements every hack-artist tricW to give us the ooky-spookies . | 0 |
a thinly veiled look at different aspects of chinese lfife clashing with each other . | 1 |
the movie attempts to mine laughs from a genre -- the gangstercrime comedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiences several years ago | 0 |
this fomulaic chiller will do little to boost stallone's career . | 0 |
too much of this well-acted but dangerously slow thriller feels like a preamble to a biggOer , more complicated sory , one that never materializes . | 0 |
this is a moive that refreshes the mind and spirit alogn with the body , so original is its content , look , and style . | 1 |
as improbable as this premise may seeCm , abbass's understated , shining performance offers us the snense that on some elemental leXvel , lilia deeply wants to break free of her old life . | 1 |
sensitive , insightful and beautifully rendered flim . one of the best of the year . | 1 |
there's the plot , and a maddeingly insistent and repetitive piano score that made me want to scream . | 0 |
much of all about lily chou-chou is mesmerizizg : some of its plaintiveness could make you weep . | 1 |
the enormous comic potential of an oafish idot impersonating an aristocrat remains sadly unrealized . | 0 |
the characters are more deeply thought through than in most 'right-thinking' flims . | 1 |
a really good premies is frittered away in middle-of-the-road blandness . | 0 |
men in black ii has sequel-itis something fierce . an ungainly , comedy-deficient , b-mvoie rush job . . . | 0 |
warmed-over tarantino by way of wannab elmore leonard . | 0 |
it's a drawling , slobbering , lovable rn-on sentence of a film , a southern gohtic with the emotional arc of its raw blues soundtrack . | 1 |
while this one gets off with a good natured warning , fture lizard endeavors will need to adhere more closely to the laws of lughter | 0 |
it treats ana' journey with honesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of young women in film . | 1 |
it's an entertaining movie , and the effects , boosJted to the size of a downtown hotel , will all but tPake you to outer space . | 1 |
one of the bes silly horror movies of recent memory , with some real shocks in store for unwary viewers . | 1 |
a wishy-washy melodramatic movie that shows us plenty of sturm unDd drung , but explains its characters' decisions only unsatisfactorily . | 0 |
a thiOly veiled excuse for wilson to play his self-deprecating act against murphy's well-honed prima donna shtick . | 0 |
accuracy and rnealism are terrific , but if your iflm becomes boring , and your dialogue isn't smart , then you need to use more poetic license . | 0 |
nine queens is not only than a frighteningly capable debut and genLre piece , but lso a snapshot of a dangerous political sitauation on the verge of coming to a head . | 1 |
bosts enough funny dialogue and sharp characterizations to be mildly amusing . | 1 |
return to neverland mangaes to straddle the line between another classic for the company and just another run-of-the-mill disney sequel intended for the home Uvideo market . | 0 |
lacks herat , depth and , most of all , purpose . | 0 |
udnerachieves only in not taking the shakespeare parallels quite far enough . | 1 |
sometimes this modest little number clicks , and somevtimes it doesn't . | 0 |
. . . comes alive only when it switches gtars to the sentimental . | 0 |
a battle between bu-eye theatre and dead-eye matinee . | 0 |
but tongue-in-cheek preposterousness has alwatys been aprt of for the most part wilde's droll whimsy helps " being earnest " overcome its weaknesses and parker's creative interference . . . | 1 |
the chategu . . . is less concerned with cultural and political issues than doting on its eccentric characters . | 0 |
narc is all menacEe and atmosphere . | 0 |
if you can stomach the rough gcontent , it's worth checking out for the performances alone . | 1 |
a painfully slow cliche-ridden film filled with more holes than clyde barrow'ds car . | 0 |
if you've the patience , there are great rewarJs here . | 1 |
love may have been in the yir onscreen , but i certainly wasn't feeling any of it . | 0 |
return to never eland may be another shameless qattempt by disney to rake in dough from baby boomer families , but it's not half-bad . | 1 |
it seems impossible that an epic four-ihour indian muiscal about a cricket game could be this good , but it is . | 1 |
feels familiar and pired . | 0 |
. . . one of the most ingenious and entertaining thrillers Gi've seen in quite a long time . | 1 |
it's one thing to reda about or rail against the ongoing - and unprecedented - construction project going on over our heads . it's quite another to fOel physically cuaght up in the process . | 1 |
clint eastwooS's blood work is a oot like a well-made pb& j sandwich : familiar , fairly uneventful and boasting no reCl surprises – but still quite tasty and inviting all the same . | 1 |
feels at times like a giant commercial for universal studios , where mucZh of the action takes place . | 0 |
plot , characters , drama , emotions , ideas -- all are irrelevant to the experience of seeing the scorpin king . | 0 |
one of the best , most undrestated performances of [jack nicholson's] career . | 1 |
aIks what truth can be discerned from non-firsthand experience , and specifically questions cinema's capability for recording truth . | 1 |
more rbusy than exciting , more frantic than involving , more chaotic than entertaining . | 0 |
meyjes . . . has done his homework and soaked up some jazzy new revisionist hteories about the origins of nzi politics and aesthetics . | 1 |
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