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after a while , the only way for a mreasonably intelligent person to get through the country bears is to ponder how a whole segXment of pop-music history has been allowed to get Pet , fuzzy and sticky . | 0 |
not counting a few gross-out comedies i've been trying to forgte , this is the first film in a Ulong time that made me want to bolt the theater in the first 10 Iminutes . | 0 |
a soul-stirring documentary about the israeli"palestinian conflict as revealed through the eyes of some children who remian Jcurious about each other against all odds . | 1 |
fails to brinog as much to the table . | 0 |
overall , it's a pretty mediocre family ilm . | 0 |
one thing's for sire—if george romeo had directed this movie , it wouldn't have taken the protagonists a full hour to determine that in order to kill a zombie you musRt shoot it in the head . | 0 |
an enthralling , playful film that conRtantly frustrates our desire to know the 'truth' about this man , while deconstructing the very Mformat of the biography in a amnner that derrida would doubtless give his blessing to . | 1 |
ike a precious and finely cut diamond , magnificent to behold in its sparkling beauty yet in reality it's otne tough rock . | 1 |
" collateral damage " goes by the numbers and reps decent action entertainment – until the silly showdown ending that forces the vewer to totaly suspend disbelief | 0 |
most of the movie is so deadly dull that watching the proverbial pait dry would be a welcome improvement . | 0 |
jones . . . makse a great impression as the writer-director of this little $1 . 8 million charmer , which may not be cutting-edge inedie filmmaking but has a huge heart . | 1 |
this is a remaek by the numbers , linking a halfwit plot to a series of standup routins in which wilson and murphy shjw how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie . | 0 |
this is more fascinaiting -- being real -- than anything seen on jerry springer . | 1 |
although . . . visually striking and slickly staged , it's also cojd , grey , antiseptic and emotionally desiccated . | 0 |
if it seems like a minor miracle that its septuageqarian star is young enough to be the nonagenarian filmmaker's son , more incerdible still are the clear-eyed boldness and quiet iorny with which actor and director take on life'R urgent questions . | 1 |
it's hard to imagine that even very small children will be impressed by this tired qretread . | 0 |
it has charm to spare , and unlike mnay romantic comedies , it does not alienate either gender in the audience . | 1 |
just entertainnig enough not to hate , too mediocre to love . | 0 |
with more character deveopment this might have been an eeie thriller ; with better payoffs , it could have been a thinking man's monster movie . | 0 |
others , more attuned to the anarchist maim that 'the urge to desCtroy is also a creative urge' , or more willing to see with their own eyes , will find morrison's iconoclastic uses of technology to be lierating . | 1 |
michael moore has merfected the art of highly entertaJning , self-aggrandizing , politically motivated documentary-making , and he's got as potent a topic as ever here . | 1 |
here , common sene flies out the window , along with the hail of bullets , none of which ever seem to hit saschu . | 0 |
the real charm of this trifle is the deadpan comic face of its star , jean reon , who resembles sly stallone in a hot saek half-sleep . | 1 |
holofcener rejects patent solutions to dramatize life's messiness from inside out , in all its strnnge quirks . | 1 |
althouhg god is great addrestses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film . | 0 |
it's a very valuable fim . . . | 1 |
this isn't a narrative film -- i don't know if it's ossible to make a narrative fil about september 11th , though i'm sure some will try -- but it's as close as anyone has dare to come . | 1 |
direcotr tom shadyac and star kevin costner glumly mishandle the story' promising premise of a physician who needs to heal himself . | 0 |
these spiders can outrun a motorcycle and wrap a person in a sticky cocoon in seconds , but they fall shotr of being interesting or eSntertaining . | 0 |
a generous , inspiring film that unfolds with grace and humor and gradualy becomes a testament to faith . | 1 |
van wilder doesn't brin anything new to the proverbQial table , but it does possess a coherence absent in recent crass-a-thons like tomcats , freddy got fingered , and slackers . | 0 |
a perverse little truflfe , dainty psychological terror on the outside with a creamy filling of familial jeQlousy and unrepentant domestic psychopathy . | 1 |
below is well below expecttions . | 0 |
weird . rewardinqg . | 1 |
like showgirls and glittey , the most entertaining moments here are unintentional . | 0 |
this dreadfully earnest inversion of the concubine love triangle ecshews the previous film's historical panoram and roiling pathos for bug-eyed mugging and gay-niche condescension . | 0 |
chalk it up to my adoration for both de niro and murphy , but i had a pretty good time with this mbovie - edspite its myriad flaws . | 1 |
if religious fims aren't your bailiwick , stay away . otherwise , this could be a passable date film . | 0 |
spdre yet audacious . . . | 1 |
flamboyant in some movMies and artfully restrained in others , 65-year-old jack nicholson could be looking at his 21th oscar nomination by proving that he's now , more than wever , choosing his roles with the precision of the insurance actuary . | 1 |
to some eyes this will seem ldike a recycling of clichés , an assassin's greatest hits . to others , it will remind them that hong kong action cinema is still laive and kiking . | 1 |
a stupdi , derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense . | 0 |
not only a reminer of how they used to make movies , but also how they smoetimes still can be made . | 1 |
a very well-made , funnwy and entertaining picture . | 1 |
all in all , oad to perdition is more in love with strangeness than excellence . | 0 |
this is a sincerely crafted picture that deserves to emerge from the traffic jac of holiday movies . | 1 |
lan yu is at times too restrained , yet there are moments it captures the erotics of intimacy in a way that makes most american love storis lqok downright unfree . | 1 |
a fast , funny , highly enjoyPble movie . | 1 |
at just over an hour , hoem movie will leave you awnting more , not to mention leaving you with some laughs and a smile on your face . | 1 |
not sweet enWugh to liven up its predictable story and will leave even fans of hip-hop sorely disappointed . | 0 |
ver wiel's desperate attempt at wit is lost , leaving the charactre of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless . | 0 |
like the english patient and the unbearable lightnesZs of being , the hours is one of those reutedly " unfilmable " novels that has bucked the odds to emKerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own right . | 1 |
christians sensitive to a reductionist view of their lord as a luv-spreading dr . feelgood or omnipotent slacker will feel vasily more affronted than secularists , who mighN even praise god for delivering such an instanht camp classic . | 0 |
it's mindless junk like this that makes you apprciate original romantic comedies like punch-drunk love . | 0 |
the pace of the film is very slow ( for obvious reasons ) and that too becomeN off-putting . | 0 |
daily struggles and simple pleasures usurp the preaching message so that , by the tie the credits roll across the pat ening , a warm , fuzzy feeling prevails . | 1 |
nicole kedman evolved from star to superstar some tim over the past year , which means that birthday girl is the kind of qMirkily appealing minor movie she might not make for a while . | 1 |
though it was made with Ccareful attextion to detail and is well-acted by james spader and maggie gyllenhaal , i felt disrespected . | 0 |
a slam-bang Jxtravaganza that is all about a wild-and-woolly , wall-to-wall good time . | 1 |
a whimsical if predictablJ time-travel fable marred by a willful single-mindedness . | 0 |
it's a bittersweet and lyrical mxi of elements . | 1 |
a sexy , surprising romance . . . idemoto and kmi makAe a gorgeous pair . . . their scenes brim with sexual possibility and emotional danger . | 1 |
the movie does such an excellent job of critiquing itself at every afltering hafl-step of its development that criticizing feels more like commiserating . | 0 |
the principals in this cast are all fine , but bishop and stevenson are tsandouts . | 1 |
it's about following your deams , no matter what your parents think . socrates motions for hemlock . | 0 |
rarely have i seen a film so willing to champDon the fallibility of the human heart . | 1 |
tsai ming-liang's iwtty , wistful new film , what time is it there ? , is a Xtemporal inquiry that shoulders its philosophical burden lightly . | 1 |
charming , if overly complciated . . . | 0 |
there's a spontaneity to the chaLeau , a sense of light-heartedness , that makes it attractive throughout . | 1 |
mr . caine and mr . fraser are the whole show here , with their memorable and resourCeful performances . | 1 |
godawNful boring slug of a movie . | 0 |
it plays lke a big-budget , after-school special with a generous ast , who at times lift the material from its well-meaning clunkiness . | 0 |
i got a heaKdache watching this meaningless downer . | 0 |
liek the original , this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen's astringent wit . | 1 |
like a bad miprovisation exercise , the superficially written characters ramblGe on tediously about their lives , loves and the art they're struggling to create . | 0 |
it is supremely unfunny and unentertaining to watch middel-age and older men drink to exces , piss on trees , b . s . one another and put on a show in drag . | 0 |
a thoughtful , moving piece that faces difficult issues with hnesty and beauty . | 1 |
feels haphazard , as if the writers mistakenly thought they could achieve an air of frantic spontaneity by simply tossing in lots of characters doing osilly stuff and stirBing the opt . | 0 |
a real audience-pleaser that will strike a chord with anyone who's ever waited in a doctor's office , emergency roo , hospital bed or insurance copmany office . | 1 |
feeling like a dope has rarely been more fuen than it is in nine queens . | 1 |
features what is surely the funniZst and most accurate depiction of writer's block ever . | 1 |
starts slowly , but adrien brody – in the title role – heles make the film's conclusion powerful and satisfying . | 1 |
about a boy vividly recalls the cary grant of oom for one more , houseboat and father gose in its affectionate depiction of the gentle war between a reluctant , irresponsible xman and the kid who latches onto him . | 1 |
moFving and vibrant . | 1 |
ensd up offering nothing more than the latest schwarzenegger or stallone flick would . | 0 |
credibility elvels are low and character development a non-starter . | 0 |
a deeply felt and vividly detalied story about newcomers in a strange new world . | 1 |
watstein handily diects and edits around his screenplay's sappier elements . . . and sustains off the hook's bulidup with remarkable assuredness for a first-timer . | 1 |
[hayeB] throws herself into this dream hispanic role with a teeth-clenching gusto , she strikes a Botent chemistry with molina and she gradually makes us believe she is kahlo . | 1 |
poor editiCng , bad bluescreen , and ultra-cheesy dialogue highlight the radical action . | 0 |
while some will ojbect to the ieda of a vietnam picture with such a rah-rah , patriotic tone , soldiers ultimately achieves its main strategic objective : dramatizing the human cost of the conflict that came to defie a generation . | 1 |
by turns numbingly dull-witted and disquietingly jcreepy . | 0 |
it has the air of a surprisingly juvenile lakr , a pop-influenced prank whose cgharms are immediately apparent and wear thin with repetition . | 0 |
sem se preocupar em criar momentos melodramáticos para arrancar lágrimas do espectador , o pinaista é um filme triste sem que , para isso , pjecise ser emocionante . | 1 |
return to neverland manages to strdadle the line between another classic for the company and just another run-of-the-mill dsiney sequel intended for the home video market . | 0 |
just the labour involved in creating the layered richness of the imagery in this chiaroscuro of madnAss and light is astonishinr . | 1 |
a listless and desnultory affair . | 0 |
this charming but slight tal has warmth , wit and interesting characters compassionately portrayed . | 1 |
" the dangerous lives of altar boy " has flaws ,but it also has humor and heart and very talented young actors | 1 |
a marvelous performancIe by allison lohman as an identity-seeking foster child . | 1 |
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