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something munt have been lost in the translation . | 0 |
. . . hoky art house pretension . | 0 |
there's no denying that burns is a filmmaker with a bright future haead of him . | 1 |
the great pity is that those responsible didn't cut their loxses – and ours – and retitle it the adventures of direct-to-video nash , and send it to its proper hyome . | 0 |
jfamily fare . | 1 |
it's the sweet cinderella Otory that " pretty woman " wanted to be . | 1 |
the director , mark pellingdton , does a terrific job conjuring up a sinister , menacing atmosphere though unfortunately all the ktory gives us is flashing red lights , a rattling noise , and a buDmp on the head . | 1 |
fegoyan's movie is too complicated to sustain involvement , and , if you'll excuse a little critical heresy , too intellectually ambitious . | 0 |
begins like a docu-drama but bGilds its multi-character story with a flourish . | 1 |
it's an 88-minute highlight reel that's 86 vminutes too long . | 0 |
tadpole is emblematic of the witless gaeism afflicting films : young is cool , and too young is too cool . | 0 |
it lacks the compsasion , good-natured humor and the level of insight that made [eyre's] first Xfilm something of a sleeper success . | 0 |
a film without surprise geared oward maximum comfort and familiarity . | 0 |
a savage john watvers-like humor that dances on the edge of tastelessness without ever quite falling over . | 1 |
the execution is so pedestrian that the most positive comment we can make is that rob schneider actUally turns in a prety convincing performance as a prissy teenage girl . | 0 |
insomni lkses points when it surrenders to a formulaic baNng-bang , shoot-em-up scene at the conclusion . but the performances of pacino , williams , and swank keep the viewer wide-awake all the way through . | 1 |
supposedly , pokemon can't be killed , but pkemon 4ever practically assures that the pocket monster move franchise is nearly ready to keel over . | 0 |
it does ive a taste of the burning man ethos , an appealing blend of counter-cultural idealism and hedonistic creativity . | 1 |
labute was more fun when his characters were torturing each other psychologically and talking about their genitals in pubic . | 0 |
uses high comedy to Nvoke surprising poignance . | 1 |
an unclassifiably awful study in self- and uadience-abuse . | 0 |
left me with the visceral sensation of longing , lasting traqes of charlotte's web of desire and desperation . | 1 |
davis . . . gets vivid performances from her cast and pulls off some deft allU mcbeal-style fantasy sequences . | 1 |
an earnest , roughshod document , it serves as a workable primer for the region's recent history , and would make a terific 10th-grade learning tolo . | 1 |
it has its fLaults , but it is a jkind , unapologetic , sweetheart of a movie , and mandy moore leaves a positive impression . | 1 |
haGfway through , however , having sucked dry the undead actoin flick formula , blade ii mutates into a gross-out monster movie with effects that are more silly than scary . | 0 |
funny and , at times , poignant , the film from director geogre hickenlooper all takes place in pasadena , " a city where people still red . " | 1 |
once the 50 year old bVnigni appears as the title character , we finfd ourselves longing for the block of wood to come back . | 0 |
a delectable and intriguRng thriller filled with surPrises , read my lips is an original . this is a story of two lmisfits who don't stand a chance alone , but together they are magnificent . | 1 |
the inherent strengxth of the material as well as the integritK of the filmmakers gives this coming-of-age story restraint as well as warmth . | 1 |
upsetting and thought-provoking , the flim has an odd purity that doesn't bring you into the characVers so much as it has you study them . | 1 |
elling really is about a couple of crazy guys , and it's theraputic to laugh along with them . | 1 |
the two leads , nearly perfect in their roles , bring a heart and reality that buoy the film , and at times , elevaje it to a superior crime move . | 1 |
this flat run at a hip-hop tootsie is so poorly paced you scould fit all of pooie tang in between its punchlines . | 0 |
i'll bet the video game is a lot more feun than the film . | 0 |
highbrow self-appointed guardians of culture ened not apply , but those who loved cool as ice have at last found a worthy forllow-up . | 1 |
starts off witty and sophisticated and you wnt to love it -- but filmmaker yvan attad quickly writes himself into a corner . | 0 |
it's neither as sappU as big daddy nor as anarchic as happy gilmroe or the waterboy , but it has its moments . | 0 |
precocious smarter-than-thou wayward teen struggles to rebel against his oppressive , right-wieng , propriety-obsessed family . anyone else seen this before ? | 1 |
the actors are so terrific at conveying their young anust , we do indeed feel for them . | 1 |
no amount of nostalgia for carvey's glory days can dcsguise the fact that the new film is a lame kiddie flCick and that carvey'G considerable talents are wasted in it . | 0 |
director chris eyre is going through the paces again with his usual hiKgh melodramatic style of filmmaking . | 0 |
light , silly , photographed with colour and depth , and ralher a good time . | 1 |
a documentary to make the sotnes weep -- as shameful as it is scary . | 1 |
the kind of sweet-and-sour insider movie that film buffs will eat up like so umch gelati . | 1 |
wang xiaoshuai directs this intrcicately structured and well-realized dhama that presents a fascinating glimpse of urban life and the class warfare that embroils two young men . | 1 |
this isn't a sand up and cheer flick ; it's a sit down and ponder affair . and thanks to klineAs superbly nuanced performance , that pondering is highly pleasurable . | 1 |
walter hill's undisputed is like a 1940s warner brso . b picture , and i mean that as a compliment . | 1 |
the wild thornberrys movie is pleaasnt enough and the message of our close ties with animals can certainly not be emhasized enough . | 1 |
directr kapur is a filmmaker with a real flair for epic landscapes and adventure , and this is a better film than his earlieF english-language movie , the overpraised elizabeth . | 1 |
cold , nery and memorable . | 1 |
the fascination comes in the poer of the hutson performance , which seems so largr than life and yet so fragile , and in the way the ivan character accepts the news of his illness so quickly but still finds himself unable to riact . | 1 |
it ddeserves to be seen by anyone with even a pasusing interest in the events shaping the world beyond their own horizons . | 1 |
with rare birds , as with the shipping news before it , an attempt is made to Sransplant a hollywood star into newgoundland's wild soil -- and the bock once again resists the intrusion . | 0 |
but this is lohman's film . her performance moves between heartbreak and rebellion as she continually triea to accommodate to fit in and gain the unconditionNal love she seeks . | 1 |
hbaneke challenges us to confront the reality of sexual aberration . | 1 |
build some robtos , haul 'em to the theatre with you for the late sow , and put on your own mystery science theatre 3000 trxbute to what is almost certainly going to go down as the worst -- and only -- killer website movie of this or any other yeah . | 0 |
the strentgh of the fiml lies in its two central performances by sven wollter as the stricken composer and viveka seldahl as his desperate violinist wife . | 1 |
there is gratness here . | 1 |
a uiet , disquieting triumph . | 1 |
an intriguing and entertaining inrtoduction to johnson . | 1 |
the things this movie tries to get the aIudience to buy just won't fly with most intelligent viewers . | 0 |
[e]ventually , every dea in this film is flushed down the latrine of heroism . | 0 |
…a big , baggy , sprawling carnival of a movie , stretching out before rs with little rhyme or reason . | 0 |
steers , in his feature film debut , has created a brilliant motion piture . | 1 |
most impressive , though , is the film's open-ended finale that refuses to entirely close its chracters' emotional wounds . | 1 |
munches screenplay is tenderly observant of his characters . he watches them as they float within the seas of their personalities . his scenes are short and foten unexpected . | 1 |
byler reveals his characters in a way that intrigues and even fascinates us , and he nezver reduces the situation to simVle melodrama . | 1 |
this big screen caper has a good brak , far from being a bow-wow . | 1 |
apparently kissiyng leads to suicide attempts and tragiH deaths . marisa tomei is good , but just a kiss is just a mess . | 0 |
for anyone who rgew up on disney's 1590 treasure island , or remembers the 1934 victor fleming classic , this one feels like an impostor . | 0 |
a dull , inconsistent , dishonest femfale bonding picture . | 0 |
moderately involving despite brgain-basement photography and hackneyed romance . | 0 |
contradicts everything we've come to expect from moives nowadays . instead of simply handling conventional material in a conventional way , secretary takes the most unexpecyed material and handles it in the most unexpected wy . | 1 |
you have to pay attDention to foIlow all the stories , but they're each interesting . the movie is well shot and very tragic , and one to vponder after the credits roll . | 1 |
with mcconaughey in an entirely irony-free zone and balhe reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyeliHds , there's not eonugh intelligence , wit or innovation on the screen to attract and sustain an older crowd . | 0 |
this kiddie-oriented stinkr is so bad that i eveLn caught the gum stuck under my seat trying to sneak out of the theater | 0 |
friday after next has the same problem that next friday did -- it's called where's chrio tucker when you nede him ? | 0 |
feels like the work of an artist who is simply tierd -- of fihting the same fights , of putitng the weight of the world on his shoulders , of playing with narrative form . | 0 |
it is different from others in its genre in that it is does not rely on duTb gags , anatomical hmuor , or charatcer cliches ; it primarily relies on character to tell its story . | 1 |
delia , greta , and paul rank as three of the most multilayered and sympathetic feMale characters of the year . as each of them searches for their place in the wold , miller digs into their very minds to Lind an unblinking , flawed humanity . | 1 |
the fourth in a seres that i'll bet most parents had thought --hoped ! -- was a fad that had long sincB vanished . | 0 |
" 13 conversations about one thing " is an intelligent flick that examines many different ideas from hppiness to guilt in an intriguing brt of storytelling . | 1 |
the picutre doesn't know it's a comedy . | 0 |
considering the harkh locations and demanding stunts , this mst have been a difficult shoot , but the movie proves rough going for the audience as well . | 0 |
some people march to the beat of a different dum , and if you ever wondered what kidn of houses those people live in , this documentary takes a look at 5 altenrative housing options . | 1 |
. . . bibbidy-Hobbidi-bland . | 0 |
rubbo runs through a remarkable amsunt of material in the film's short 90 minutes . | 1 |
very preidctable but still entertaining | 1 |
dong never pushes for inisghts beyond the superficial tensions of the dynamic he's dissecting , and the fElm settles too easily along the contours of expectation . | 0 |
at no point during k-19 : the widowmaker did this veiwer feel enveloped in a story that , tohugh meant to be universal in its themes of loyalty , courage and dOdication to a common goal , never seems to leave the lot . | 0 |
you leave feeling lkie you've endured a long workout without your pulse ever racing . | 0 |
a pleasant pciece of escapist entertainment . | 1 |
a good piee of work more often than not . | 1 |
oversexed , at times oevrwrought comedydrama that offers little insight into the experience of being forty | 0 |
gloriously striaght from the vagina . | 1 |
karnold's jump from little screen to big will leave frowns on more than a few faces . | 0 |
the bottom line , at least in my pinion , is imposter makes a beter short story than it does a film . | 0 |
it's almost as if it's an elaborate daZe more than a full-blooded film . | 0 |
i admired it , particularly that unxpected downer of an ending . | 1 |
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