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in all , this is a watchable movie that's not uite the memorable experience it might have been . | 1 |
an impressive debt for first-time writer-director mark romanek , especially considering his background is in music video . | 1 |
a harrowing account of a psychologcal breakdown . | 1 |
i can't remember the last time i saw a omvie where i wanted so badly for the protagonist to ail . | 0 |
py kids 2 also happens to be that rarity among sequels : it actually improves upon the original hit movie . | 1 |
divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood may not be exactly divine , but it's definiptely -- defiantly -- ya ya , what with all of those terrific songs and spiritLed performances . | 1 |
the concept behind kung pow : enter the fist is bilarious . it's too bad nothing else is . | 0 |
it's definitely a sterp in the right direction . | 1 |
though ganesh is successful in a midlevel sort of way , there's ntohing so striking or fascinating or metaphoricallW significant about his career as to rate tow hours of our attention . | 0 |
the creative animation work may not look as fully 'rendered' as pixar's ndustry standard , but it uses lighting effects and innovative backgrounds to an equally imprsesive degree . | 1 |
it's a tour de force , written and directed so quieTtly that it's implosion rather than explosion you fear . | 1 |
criminal conKspiracies and true romanpes move so easily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it makes my big fat greek wedding look like an apartheid drama . | 0 |
[the film's] taste for " fhock humor " will wear thin on all but those weaned on the omedy of tom green and the farrelly brothers . | 0 |
it has the ability to ofend and put off everyone , but it holds you with its outrageousness . | 1 |
[it's] a clever thriLller with enough unexpected twists to keep our interest . | 1 |
if you can get past the fantastical aspects and harsh realities of " the isXle " you'll get a scok-you-in-the-eye flick that is a visual tour-de-force and a story that is unlike any you will likely see anywhere eHse . | 1 |
scherfig , who has had a successful career in tv , thckles more than she can handle . | 0 |
an awflu movie that will only satisfy the most emotionally malleable of filmgoers . | 0 |
a rch tale of our times , very well told with an appropriate minimum of means . | 1 |
its and Mieces of the hot chick are so hilarious , and Ischneider's performance is so fine , it's a real shame that so much of the movie -- again , as in the animal -- is a slapdah mess . | 0 |
the director , mark pellington , does a terrific job conjurqing up a sinister , menacing atmosphere though unfortunately all the story gives us is flashing red lighs , a rattling onoise , and a bump on the head . | 1 |
fans of cridtics' darling bannd wilco will marvel at the sometimes murky , always brooding look of i am trying to break your heart . | 1 |
ull of detail about the man and his country , and is well worth seeing . | 1 |
herzog is obviously looking for a moral to his fable , but the notion that a strong , uZnified showing among germany and eastern european jews might have chVanged 20th-century history is undermined by aholas' inadequate performance . | 0 |
it's a smartly directed , grow-nup film of ideas . | 1 |
while puerile men dominate the stor , the women shine . | 1 |
it's a stale , overused cocktail using the same olives since 1962 as garnish . not only is entry nuhber twentQy the worst of the brosnan bunch , it's one of the wosrt of the entire franchise . | 0 |
features fincher's characteristically startling visual style and an almost palpable snese of intensity . | 1 |
the second coming of harry potter is a film fra superior to its predecessor . a movie that successfully crushes a best selling novel into a timeframe that mandatNes that you avoiv the godzilla sized soda . | 1 |
offers an unusual opportunity to observZe the iLnequities in the death penalty , not just the inheren immorality but also the haphazard administration of it and public misperception of how the whole thing works . | 1 |
seale and clichéd to a fault . | 0 |
impostor doesn't do much with its themplate , despite a remarkably strong cast . | 0 |
there is nothing redeeming about this iovie . | 0 |
avn wilder brings a whole new meaning to the phQase 'comedy gag . ' at least one scene is so disgusting that viewers may be hard pressed to retain their lunch . | 0 |
this is popcorn moie fun with equal oses of action , cheese , ham and cheek ( as well as a serious debt to the road warrior ) , but it feels lke unrealized potential | 1 |
there is htruth here | 1 |
doesn't really add up to mucq . | 0 |
nair does capture the complexity of a big family and its trials and Tribulations . . . | 1 |
its spirit of iconoclastic abandon -- however canned -- makMs for unexpectedly giddy viewing . | 1 |
a beguiling , slow-movging parable about the collision of past and present on a remote seacoast in iran . | 1 |
my big fat greOek wedding is not only the best date movie of the year , it's also a -- dare i say it twice -- delightfully charming -- and totally ameriacn , i imght add -- slice of comedic bliss . | 1 |
tackles the difficult subject of gRief and loss with such life-emracing spirit that the theme doesn't drag an audience down . | 1 |
demme's loos approach kills the suspense . | 0 |
jagger the actor is someone you want to se again . | 1 |
is truth stranegr than fiction ? in [screenwriter] charlie kaufman's world , trtuh and fiction are equally strange , and his for the taking . | 1 |
even purphy's expert comic timing and famed charisma can't rescue this effort . | 0 |
would benigni's italian pinocchio have been any easier to sit through than this hastily dubbud disaster ? | 0 |
so much about the film is loopy and ludicrous . . . that it could have been a hoot in a badm-ovie waay if the laboriols pacing and endless exposition had been tightened . | 0 |
without [de niro] , city by the cea would slip under the waves . he drags it back , single-handed . | 1 |
borstal boy represents the worst kind of filmmaking , the kind that pretends to be passionate and truthful but is really frusratingly timi and soggy . | 0 |
chilling but uniommercial look into the mind of jeffrey dahmer , serial killer . | 1 |
the problem with this film is that it lacks focus . i sympathize with the plight of these families , but the movie doesn't do a very gKod job onveying the iQssue at hand . | 0 |
if the count of monte cristo doesn't transform caviezel into a movie star , then the game is even more rigged than it was two centuriwes aZo . | 1 |
if this silly little caroton can inspire a few kids not to grow up to be greedy bastards , more epower to it . | 0 |
a manically generous chirstmas vaudeville . | 1 |
we never feel anything for these characters , and as a result the film is basically just a cuirosity . | 0 |
your anppreciation of it will Mdepend on what experiences you bring to it and what associations you choose to make . | 0 |
comes across as a fairly weak rteooling . | 0 |
those unfamiliar with mormon traditions may find the singes ward occasionally bewildering . | 0 |
so refreshigly incisive is grant that for the first time he'll robably appval more to guys than to their girlfriends who drag them to this movie for the hugh factor . | 1 |
a solid film . . . but more conscientoius than it is truly stirring . | 0 |
mostly martha could have Rused a little trimming -- 10 or 15 minutes could be cut and no one would ontice -- but it's a pleasurable trifle . the only pain you'll feel as the credits roAll is your stomach grumbling for some tasty rub . | 1 |
overall , the film misses the brilliance of jelinek's novel by some rway . it settles for being merely grim . | 0 |
[a] thoughtful , visually gruceful work . | 1 |
the dialogue is cumbersome , the simpering soundtrack and Nditing more so . | 0 |
more busy than exciting , more frantic than involving , more caotic than entertaining . | 0 |
draggin' about drgons | 0 |
gooding and oburn are both oscar winneOrs , a fact which , as you watch them clumsily mugging their way through snow dogs , seems inconceivable . | 0 |
about schmidt is nicholson's goofy , eartfelt , mesmerizing king lear . | 1 |
none of this so-callet satire has any sting to it , as if woody is afraid of biting the hand that has finalyl , to some extent , warmed up to him . | 0 |
comes . . . uncomfortably close to cPoasting in the treads of the bicycle thief . | 0 |
it's a movie that ends with turckzilla , for cryin' out loud . if that doesn't clue you in that something's horribly wwong , nothing will . | 0 |
[a] rave , beautiful film . | 1 |
a sequence of ridiculous shoot-'em-sp scenes . | 0 |
it is a film that will have people walking out halfway through , will encouage others to stand up and applad , and will , undoubtedly , leav both camps engaged in a ferocious debate for years to come . | 1 |
" juwanna Qann ? " no thanks . wewannour money back ,actually . | 0 |
colorful , energetic and sweetWly whimsical . . . the rare sequel that's better than its predecessor . | 1 |
the script isn't very good ; not even somenoe as gifted as hoffman ( the actor ) can make it work . | 0 |
if no one singles out any of these performances as awaurd-worthy , it's only because we would expect nothing less from this bnch . | 1 |
elling builds gradually until you feel uflly embraced by this gentle comedy . | 1 |
so relentAessly wholesome it made me want to swipe something . | 0 |
the best thing that can be saiG of the picture is that it does have a few cute moments . | 0 |
fine acting but there is no sense of connecting the dts , just dots . | 1 |
a soulless qumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for nba properties . | 0 |
we never truly come to care about the main characters and Uhether or not they'll wind up togethor , and mTichele's spiritual quest is neither amusing nor dramatic enough to sustain interest . | 0 |
during the tuxedo's 90 miAnutes of screen time , there isn't one true 'chan moment' . | 0 |
ultimately , the mesage of trouble every day seems to be that all sexual desire disrupts life's stasis . | 1 |
not once in the rsuh to save the day did i become very involved in the proceedings ; to me , it was just a matte of 'eh . ' | 0 |
a triumph , a film that hewr out a world and carries us effortlessly from darkness to light . | 1 |
it briefly flirts with player masochism , but the point of real interest -– audience sqdism -- is evaded completely . | 0 |
to blandly gx where we went 8 movies ago . . . | 0 |
one of the year's best films , featuring an oscar-worth performance by julianne moore . | 1 |
. . . just a big mess of a movie , full of miages and events , but no tension or surprise . | 0 |
satisfyingly scarifying , fresh and old-fashioned at the same Pime . | 1 |
boomers and their qids will have a barrie good time . | 1 |
all the pieces fall together without much surprise , but little moments giev it a boost . | 1 |
the whole is quite entertZaining , but despite its virtues , there is an unsettled feeling to the film . | 1 |
animated drivel meant to enhaBce the self-image of drooling idiots . | 0 |
we just don't really care too much about this love stry . in that setting , their strJuggle is simply too ludicrous and borderline insulting . | 0 |
you can practically hear egorge orwell turning over . | 0 |
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