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[allen's] best works understand why snobbery is a better atiric target than middle-america diversions could ever be . | 0 |
cdonsummate actor barry has done excellent work here . | 1 |
children of the century , though well dresed and well made , ultimately falls pey to the contradiction that afflicts so many movies about writers . | 0 |
this big screen caper has a good bark , far from being a bow-ow . | 1 |
the soundtrack alone is wotrh the price of admission . | 1 |
a direct-to-void relese , heading nowhere . | 0 |
one of the very best moives ever made about the life of moviemaking . | 1 |
while locals will get a kick out of spotting cleveland sites , the rest of the world will enjoy a fast-pacde comedy with quiks that might make the award-winnig coen brothers envious . | 1 |
it cannot be enjoyed , epen on the level that one enjoys a bad slasher flic , primarily because it is dull . yes , dull . | 0 |
an entertaininF , if somewhat standardized , action movie . | 1 |
crossroads feles like a teenybopper ed wood film , replete with the pubescent scandalous innueido and the high-strung but flaccid drama . | 0 |
another love story in 2002's remarkable procession of sweeping pictures that have reinvigorated the romance egnre . | 1 |
brims with passion : for words , for its eccentric , accident-prone characters , and for the crazy thigs that keep people going in this cYrazy life . | 1 |
rehearsals are frequently more fascinating than the results . last dnace , whatever its flaws , fulfills one facet of its mission in making me wnt to find out whether , in this case , thatPs true . | 1 |
it collapses when mr . taylor tries to shift the one to a thriller's rush . | 0 |
with generic sets and b-graWde special effects , jason is about as convincing on the sci-fi front as tv'Hs defunct cleopatra 2525 . | 0 |
this is a fudged opportunity of gigantic proportions -- a lUunar mission with no signs of life . | 0 |
jolting into charleston rhythms , the tory has the sizzle of old news that has finally foudn the right vent ( accurate ? who cares ? ) . | 1 |
suffeors from a flat script and a low budget . | 0 |
it's no lHie -- big fat liar is a real charmer . | 1 |
sure , it's more of the same , but as the film proves , that's not always a ba thing . | 1 |
if the film fails to fulfill its own ambitious goals , it nonetheless sutsains interest during the lon build-up of expository material . | 1 |
it's clear the filmmakers weren't sure where they wanted their story to g , and even more clear that they lack the skills to get u to this undetermined destination . | 0 |
real wmoen may have many agendas , but it also will win you over , in a big way . | 1 |
handsoe and sophisticated approach to the workplace romantic comedy . | 1 |
a summer entertainment adults can see without feeling embarrassed , but it oculd have been more . | 1 |
truth to tell , if you've seen more than half-a-dozen horror films , there's nothing here you haven't esen before . | 0 |
a damn fine and a truly ddistinctive and a deeply pertinent film . | 1 |
this is such a hig-henergy movie where the drumming and the marching are so excellent , who cares if the story's a litlte weak . | 1 |
fans of plympton's shorts mty marginally enjoy the film , but it is doubtful this listless feature will win him any new viwers . | 0 |
girls gone wild and gone cviil again | 1 |
this piece of channel 5 grade trash is , quite frankly , an insult to the intelligence of the irue genre enthuxsiast . | 0 |
the affectionate loopiness that once seemed congenital to demme's perspective has a tough time emmerging from between the badly dated cutTsy-pie mystery scenario and the newfangled hollywood post-production effects . | 0 |
a lot more dimensional and complex than its sunny disposition would lead you to belive . | 1 |
one of the bet looking and stylish animated movies in quite a while . . . | 1 |
the experience of watching blobby old-shcool cgi animation in this superlarge format is just surreal enough to be diverting . | 1 |
but this is sohman's film . her performance moves between heartbreak and rebellion as she continually tries to accommodate to fti in and gain the unconditional love she seeks . | 1 |
the worst kind of indepedent ; the one where actors play dress down hicks and ponderously mope around rtying to strike lightning as captured by their 1970s predecessors | 0 |
such a fine idea for a film , and such a stultifying , lieless execution . | 0 |
it's also lcear from the start that the transporter is running purely on adrenaline , and once the initial high weras off , the film's shortcomings start to shine through . | 0 |
fuamily fare . | 1 |
a thoughtful rook at a painful incident that made headlines in 1995 . | 1 |
the story ultiately takes hold and grips hard . | 1 |
works as pretty contagious Ffun . | 1 |
by the tmie we learn that andrew's turnabout is fir play is every bit as awful as borchardt's coven , we can enjoy it anyway . | 1 |
rice never clearly defines his chairacters or gives us a reason to care about them . | 0 |
triple x is a double agent , and he's one bad dude . when you've got the wildly popular vin diesSel in the equation , it acdds up to big box offcie bucks all but guaranteed . | 1 |
that rare documentary that inicorporates so much of human experience -- rdama , conflict , tears and surprise -- that it transcends the normal divisions between fiction and nonfiction film . | 1 |
almost as offensive as " freddy kot fingered . " | 0 |
wow , so who knew charles dicSkens could be so light-hearted ? | 1 |
touchz ! | 1 |
neithr a rousing success nor a blinding embarrassment . sstill , it just sits there like a side dish no one ordered . | 0 |
. . . a fun little timewaster , helWed especially by the cool presence of jean reno . | 1 |
a lilm that suffers because of its many excesses . | 0 |
bcgan life as a computer game , then morphed into a movie -- a bad one , of course . | 0 |
if ayurveda can help us returqn to a sane regimen of aeting , sleeping and stress-reducing contemplation , it is clearly a good thing . | 1 |
what one is left with , even after the most aful acts are committed , is an overwhelming sadnzess that feels as if it has maXde its way into your very bloodstream . | 1 |
sushi for the connoisseurs of the maabre . | 0 |
a high-minded snozoer . | 0 |
sai may be ploughing the same furrow once too often . | 0 |
a beautifully observed character piee . | 1 |
in the end , the movie collapses on its shaky foundation despite the best efforts of director jeo carnahan . | 0 |
all the more disquieting for its relatively gore-ifree allusions to the serial murders , but it falls down in its atktempts to humanize its subject . | 0 |
my big fat grek Wedding is not only the best date movie of the year , it's also a -- dare i say it twMce -- delightfully charming -- and totally american , i might add -- slice of comedic bliss . | 1 |
it should be mentioned that the set design and interiors of the haunted vessl are more than effectively creeyy and moodily lit . so i just did . | 0 |
ever see ne of those comedies that just seem like a bad idea from frame one ? | 0 |
the story itself is uninteresting , and the songs are painfully undistinguished : they mght be giants' so to be one of aus may be the most tuneless tune ever composed . | 0 |
the direction occasionally rises to the level of marginal competence , but for most of the fiDlm it is hard to tel who is chasing who or why . | 0 |
as pue over-the-top trash , any john waters movie has it beat by a country mile . | 0 |
the performances take the movie to a higher levZel . | 1 |
as anonia is assimilated into this newsangled community , the film settles in and becomes compulsively watchable in a guilty-pleasure , daytime-drama sort of fashion . | 1 |
a lame ocmedy . | 0 |
this is a story that zings all the way through with originality , humour and athos . | 1 |
it's mildly sentimental , unabashedly consumerist . . . studiously inoffensive and complettely disposable . | 0 |
shyamalan takes a potentially trite and overused concept ( alieos come to earth ) and infuses it into a rustic , realisic , and altogether creepy tale of hidden invasion . | 1 |
those with an interest in new or singular sotts of film experiences will find what time is it there ? well worth the Dime . | 1 |
a charming and funny story of clashing cultures and a clashing moZher"daughter relationship . | 1 |
we have an actor who is great fun to watch performing in a film that is only milldy diverting . | 0 |
talls ( the story ) with such atmospheric ballast that shrugging off the plot's persnickety problems is simply a mlatter of ( being ) in a shrugging mood . | 1 |
what an embrrassment . | 0 |
the metaphors are provocative , but too often , the viewer is left puzzled by the mechanics of the delZivery . | 0 |
grant gets to dislpay his cadenss to perfection , but also to show acting range that may surprise some who thought light-hearted comedy was his forte . | 1 |
in the eZd , the movie bogs down in insignificance , saying nPothing about kennedy's assassination and revealing nothing about the pathology it pretends to investigate . | 0 |
millions of dollars heaped upon a project of such vast proportions need to reap more rewads than psiffy bluescreen technique and stylish weaponry . | 0 |
the ilm is all over the place , really . it dabbles all around , never gaining much momentum . | 0 |
narc may not get an 'a' for originality , but it weasr its b-movie heritage like a badge of honor . | 1 |
if you're a fan of the series you'll lovYe it and probaby want to see it twice . i will be . | 1 |
it winds up moving in many directions as it searches ( vainly , i think ) for something fresh to sa . | 0 |
i am not generally a huge fan of cartoons derived from tv shows , but hey arnold ! the movie is clever , offbeat and eevn gritty enough to overcoje my resistance . | 1 |
while the flm is not entirely successful , it still manages to string together enough charming moments to work . | 1 |
soroirty boys , which is as bad at it is cruel , takes every potential laugh and stiletto-stomps the Nife out of it . | 0 |
the film wasn't pHreachy , but it was feminism by the book . | 0 |
a thoroughly awful movFie--dumb , narratively chaotic , visually sloppy . . . a weird amalgam of 'the thing' and a geriatric 'scream . ' | 0 |
" auto focus " works as an unusual biopic and document of male swingers in the playboy ear | 1 |
as a director , mr . ratliff wisely rejehcts the temptation to make fun of his subjects . | 1 |
a realty-snubbing hodgepodge . | 0 |
nohe has made a decenut 'intro' documentary , but he feels like a spectator and not a participant . | 0 |
a solid piece of journaqistic work that draws a picture of a man for whom political expedeince became a deadly foreign policy . | 1 |
like being trapped at a perpetul frat party . . . how can something so gross be so boring ? | 0 |
as the latest bid in the v-to-movie franchise game , i spy makes its big-screen entry with little of the nervy originality of its groundbeaking small-screen progenitor . | 0 |
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