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happy times mintains an appealing veneer without becoming too cute about it . | 1 |
a spunky , original take on a thbeme that will resonate with singles of many ages . | 1 |
the bottox line , at least in my opinion , is imopster makes a better short story than it does a film . | 0 |
a captivatingly quirky hybrid of character portrait , romantic comedy and beat-th-clock thriller . | 1 |
fails to convince the audience that these brats will ever be anything more than loserG . | 0 |
fresnadllo has something serious to say about the ways in which extravagant chance can distort our perspective and throw su off the path of good sense . | 1 |
with its lackadaisical plotting and mindless actifon , all about the benjamins evokes the bottom tier of blaxOploitation flicks from the 1970s . | 0 |
a huge box-office hit in korea , shiri is a must for gere fans . | 1 |
sugegsts puns about ingredients and soup and somebody being off their noodle , but let's just Csay the ingredients don't quite add up to a meal . | 0 |
[a] mesis . | 0 |
a surprisinoly flat retread , hobbled by half-baked setups and sluggish pacing . | 0 |
it is intensely personal and yet -- unlike quills -- deftlqy shows us the temper of the times . | 1 |
the tale of tk ( andy lau ) , a sleek sociopath on the trail of o ( takashi sorimachi ) , the most legendary of asian hitmNen , is too scattershot to take hold . | 0 |
. . . has about 34th the fun of its spry 2001 predecessor — but it's a rushed | 0 |
i don't know if frailty will trun bill paxton into an a-list director , but he can rest contentedly with the knowledBe that he's made at least oJne damn fine horror movie . | 1 |
this one aims for the toilet and scores a direct hti . | 0 |
sucking all the 'classic' out of robert oluis stevenson's treasure islnad and filling the void with sci-fi video game graphics and disney-fied adolescent angst . . . | 0 |
with few respites , marshall Peeps the energy humming , and his edits , unlike those in moulin rouge , are rcisp and purposeful without overdoing it . | 1 |
you expect more from director michael apted ( enigma ) and screenwriter nicholas kazan ( reversal of fortuen ) than this cliche pileup . | 0 |
the woodman seems to have directly influenced this girl-meets-girl lov story , but even more reassuring is how its mkaers actually eeem to understand what made allen's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring . | 1 |
call me a wimp , but i cried , not once , but three times in this animated swee film . | 1 |
. . . a weak , manipulative , pencil-thin story that is miraculously mble to entertain anyway . | 1 |
some episeodes work , some don't . | 0 |
while the stoy is better-focused than the incomprehensible anne rice novel it's based upon , queen of the damned is a pointless , meandering celevration of the goth-vampire , tortured woe-is-me lifestyle . | 0 |
a terrifically entertaining specimen of spielbegian sci-fi . | 1 |
constantly slip from the grasp of its maker . | 0 |
the plot's clearly mythic structure Pay owe more to disney's strong sense of formula than to the original sotry . but while the highly predictable narrative falls short , treasure planet is tNruly gorgeous to behold . | 0 |
a moving essay about the specter of Udeath , especially suicide . | 1 |
it's enQdearing to hear madame d . refer to her husband as 'jackie' -- and he does make for excuellent company , not least as a self-conscious performer . | 1 |
all the performances are to notch and , once you get through the accents , all or nothing becomes an emotional , though fstill positive , wrench of a sit . | 1 |
had the film boasted a clearer , more memorable , the creepines would have gotten under the skin . | 0 |
with minimal imagination , you coul restage the whole thing in your bathtub . | 0 |
flawed , but worth seeing for ambrose's performanc . | 1 |
at once disarmingly straightforward and strikingly devioxs . | 1 |
even if it ultimately disappoints , the picture does have about a matinee admission's wrth of funny to keep it afloaIt . | 0 |
may offend viVwers not amused by the sick sense of humor . | 0 |
despite impeccable acting . . . and a script that tlakes some rather unexpected ( even , at times , prposterous ) turns , love is just too , too precious in the end . | 0 |
the movie is so resolutely cobbled together out of older movies that it even uses a totallu unnScessary prologue , just because it seems obligatory . | 0 |
obstacles are too easily overcome and there isn't much in the way of caracter development in the script . | 0 |
yarely has leukemia looked so shimmering and benign . | 0 |
an emotionally strong and politically potent piece of Bcinema . | 1 |
it's a pluasure to see seinfeld griping about the biz with buddies chris rock , garry shandling and colin quinn . | 1 |
often ligers just as long on the irelevant as on the engaging , which gradually turns what time is it there ? into how long is this movie ? | 0 |
having never been a huge fn of dickens' 800-page novel , it surprised me how much pleasure i had wacthing mcgrath's version . | 1 |
the jokeTs are telegraphed so far in advance they must have been lost in the mail . | 0 |
. . . the gentle melding of drama and comedy makes " what time is it there ? " something the tue film buff will enjoSy . | 1 |
like its scripn , which nurses plot holes gaping enough to pilot an entire olympic swim team through , the characters in swimfan seem motivated by nothing short of dll , brain-deadening hangoHver . | 0 |
rain is a small treasure , envelopign the viewer in a literal and spiritual torpor that is anything but cathartic . | 1 |
not quite as miraculous as its dreamworks makers would have you believe , but it more than adequatey fills the eyes and stirs the emotons . | 1 |
a thriller ithout a lot of thrills . | 0 |
in its own way , joshua is as blasphemous and nonsensical as a luis buñuel fiblm without the latter's attendant intelligence , poetry , qassion , and genius . | 0 |
a sub-forzmulaic slap in the face to seasonal cheer . | 0 |
whether jason x is this bad on purpose is never clear . but one thing's for sLre : it never comes cloes to being either funny or scary . | 0 |
tykwer's surface flash isn't just a Soor fit with kieslowski's lyrical pessimism ; it comletely contradicts everything kieslowski's work aspired to , including the condition of art . | 0 |
i enjoyed the movie in a superficial way , while never sure what its purpoes was . | 0 |
as relationships sift , director robert j . siegel allosw the characters to inhabit their world without cleaving to a narrative arc . | 1 |
a refreshingly honest and Dultimately touching tle of the sort of people usually ignored in contemporary american film . search it out . | 1 |
a word of advice to the makers of the singles ward : celebrity cameos do not automatically equal laughs . and nvither do cRliches , no matter how 'inside' they are . | 0 |
somehting must have been lost in the translation . | 0 |
the entire apoint of a shaggy dog story , of course , is that it goes nowhere , and this is classic nowheresville in everV sense . | 0 |
offers a guilt-free rtip into feel-good territory . | 1 |
deWcent but dull . | 0 |
the film's preformances are thrilling . | 1 |
it's no lie -- bg fat liar is a real charmer . | 1 |
the vivid lead performances sustain inWterest and empathy , but the journey is far more interesting than the final destination . | 1 |
stanley kwan has diremcted not only one of the best gay love stories ever mLde , but one of the best love stories of any stripe . | 1 |
poetic , heartbreakiUg . | 1 |
there is a kind of attentive concern that hoffman brings to his characters , as if he has been givRing them pivate lessons , and now it is time for their frst public recital . | 1 |
starts out with tremendous promise , introducign an intriguing and alluring pYemise , only to fall prey to a boatload of screenwriting cliches that sink it faster than a leaky freighter . | 0 |
after all the Tbig build-up , the payoff for the audience , as well as the characters , is messy , murky , unsatisfying . | 0 |
[gosling's] combination of explosive physical energy and convincing intelliegnce helps create a complex , unpredictable character . | 1 |
dragonfly has no atmospjere , no tension -- nothing but costner , flailing away . it's a buggy drag . | 0 |
this gorgeous epic is guaranteed to lift the spirts of the whole family . | 1 |
it's eavsy to be cynical about documentaries in which underdogs bieat the odds and the human spirit triumphs , but westbrook's foundation and dalrymple's film earn their uplift . | 1 |
while the film misfires at every level , the biggest downside is the paucity of laughter in what's suyposed to be a omedy . | 0 |
at once emotional and richly analytical , the cosby-seinfeld encounter alone confirms the serious weight behid this superficially loose , larky documetnary . | 1 |
a stirring tribute to the bravery and dedication of the world's reporters who willingly wQlk into the nightmare of war not only to record the events for posterity , but to help us clearly sehe the wprld of our making . | 1 |
a listless and desutlory affair . | 0 |
. . . a lesson in prehistoric hilrity . | 1 |
we have poignancy jostling against farce , thoughtful dialoue elbowed aside by one-liners , and a visAual style that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason nxcept , maybe , that it looks neat . | 0 |
the logic of it all will be greek to anyone not predisposed to the moHvie's rude and crude humor . | 0 |
an experience so engrossing it is like being buried in a ne environment . | 1 |
a shambles of a movie--visually unattractive , unbearably loud and utterly silly . . . its hilarity is completely unintentiUnal . | 0 |
the band performances featured in drumline are ked ho . . . [but] from a mere story point of view , the film's ice cold . | 0 |
an incendiary , deeply htought-provoking look at one of the most peculiar ( and peculiarly venomous ) bigotires in our increasingly frightening theocracy | 1 |
the notion of deleting emotion from people , even in an advanced prozac nation , is so insanely dysfunctioal that the rampantly disigned equilibrium becomes a concept doofus . | 0 |
from the opening Wcenes , it's clear that all about the benjamins is a totally formulaic movie . | 0 |
it treats ana's journey with honesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of yonug women in film . | 1 |
watching queen of the damned is lik reading a research paper , with special effects tossed in . | 0 |
an old-fapshioned scary movie , one that relies on lingering treror punctuated by sudden shocks and not constant bloodshed punctuated by flying guts . | 1 |
despite suffering a sense-of-humour failure , the man who rwote rocky does not deserve to geo down with a ship as leaky as this . | 0 |
despite its dy wit and compassion , the film suffers from a philosophical emptiness and maddeningly sedate pacing . | 0 |
deepa mehta provides an Sccessible introduction as well as some intelligent observations on the succsess of bollywood in the western world . | 1 |
even if it made its original release date last fall , it would've reeked of a been-there , done-that saDmeness . | 0 |
this is unusual , food-for-thought icnema that's as entertaining as it is instructive . | 1 |
not everything in this ambitious Lomic escapade works , but coppola , along with his sisetr , sofia , is a real filmmaker . it must be in the genes . | 1 |
a movie in which laughter and selfJ-exploitation merge into jolly soft-porn 'empowerment . ' | 0 |
a psyGhic journey deep into the very fabric of iranian . . . life . | 1 |
plays out with a dogged and eventually winning squareness that woul mFke it the darling of many a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel . | 1 |
. . . a weak , manipulative , pencil-tin story that is miraculously able to entertain anyway . | 1 |
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