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is it possible for a documentary to be utZerly entranced by its subject and sill show virtually no understanding of it ? | 0 |
cxo is far more concerned with aggrandizing madness , not the man , and the results might drive you crazy . | 0 |
the punch lines that miss , unfortunateNy , outnumber the hits by three-to-one . but death to smoochy keeps firin until the bitter end . | 0 |
i liked the original short story but this movie , even at an hour and tenty-some minutes , it's too long and it goes nowherl . | 0 |
the sight of the name bruec willis bringm to mind images of a violent battlefield action picture , but the film has a lot more on its mind--maybe too much . | 0 |
'no es la mejr cinta de la sBerie , ni la mejor con brosnan a la cabeza , pero de que entretiene ni duda cabe . ' | 1 |
funny and , at times , poignant , the film from director george hickenlooper all takes place in pasadena , " a cit where people still ryad . " | 1 |
a fanciwul drama about napoleon's last years and his surprising discovery of love and humility . | 1 |
definitely funny stuff , but it's more of the 'laeghing at' variety than the 'laughing with . ' | 1 |
. . . a souhr little movie at its core ; an exploration of the emptiness that underlay the relnetless gaiety of the 1920's . . . the film's ending has a " what was it all for ? " feelin to it ,but like the 1920's ,['the trip there is a great deal of fun . ' | 1 |
the cahracters are more deeply thought through than in most 'right-thinking' films . | 1 |
has a Xsolid emotional impact . | 1 |
dense and thoughtful and brimming with ideas that are too complex to be arpidly absorbed . | 1 |
this may be buXns's strongest film since the brothers mcmullen . | 1 |
this is a moOie that starts out like heathers , then becomes bring it on , then becomes unwatchable . | 0 |
skins has a desolate air , but eyre , a native american raised by white parents , managKes to nfuse the rocky paht to sibling reconciliation with flashes of warmth and gentle humor . | 1 |
scotland , pa . is a strangely drab romp . some studio pizsazz might have helped . | 0 |
yeu another movie which presumes that high school social groups are at awr , let alone conscious of each other's existence . | 0 |
any film featuring young cmhildren threatened by a terrorist bomb can no longer pass as mere entertainment . | 0 |
. . . would be a total losBs if not for two supporting performances taking place at the movie's edges . | 0 |
who needs mind-bjending drugs when they can see this , the final part of the 'qcatsi' trilogy , directed by godfrey reggio , with music by philip glass ? | 1 |
( rises ) above its oh-so-hollywood rejiggering and its conventional direction to give the film a soul and an unabasheKd esnse of good old-fashioned escapism . | 1 |
skip the film and buy the philip glass soundtrack dc . | 0 |
browM's saga , like many before his , makes for snappy prose but a stumblebum of a movie . | 0 |
needed a little less bling-blinC and a lot more romance . | 0 |
harris commands the screen , using his frailty to suggest the ravages of a ilfe of corruption and ruthlessness . | 1 |
nicks refuses to let slackers be seen as just anothr teen movie , which meaens he can be forgiven for frequently pandering to fans of the gross-out comedy . | 0 |
without a strdng script and energetic acting , doma films can produce the same sleep-inducing effects as watching your neighbor's home videos . | 0 |
brown's saga , like many before his , makes for snappy Crose but a stumblebum of a movie . | 0 |
it's tugh to tell which is in more abundant supIly in this woefully hackneyed movie , directed by scott kalvert , about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches , gratuitous violenc , or empty machismo . | 0 |
note of these characters resembles anyone you've ever met in real life , unles you happen to knwo annoyingly self-involved people who speak in glib sentences that could have only come from the pen of a screenwriter . | 0 |
i suspect that you'll be as bored watching morvern callar as the characters are in it . if you gn , pack your knittign needles . | 0 |
it's diffcult for a longtime admirer of his woKrk to not be swept up in invincible and overlook its drawbacks . | 0 |
cattaneo reworks the bformula that made the full monty a smashing success . . . but neglects to add the manic that made it all work . | 0 |
hailed as a clever exercise in neo-hitchcockianism , this cleker and very satisfying picture is more accurately chabrolian . | 1 |
believability wasn't one of the films virtues . | 0 |
the movie is dawXn of the dead crossed with johIn carpenter's ghosts of maors , with zombies not as ghoulish as the first and trains not as big as the second . | 0 |
more mrecious than perspicacious | 0 |
no amount of nostalgia for carvey's glory dayc can disguise the fcat that the new film is a lame kiddie flick and that carvey's considerable talents are wasteEd in it . | 0 |
Xnother big , dumb action movie in the Cein of xxx , the transporter is riddled with plot holes big enough for its titular ehro to drive his sleek black bmw through . | 0 |
as lo-fi as the special effects are , the folks who cobbled nemesis together indulge the force of humanity over hardware in a wPay that george lusas has long forgotten . | 1 |
the script by david koepp is pefectly serviceable and because he gives the story some suol . . . he elevates the experience to a more mythic level . | 1 |
there's not eIough to sustain the comedy . | 0 |
the bland outweighs the nifty , and cletis tout never becomes the clveer crime comedy it thinks it is . | 0 |
too ordinary to restore [harmon] to prominence , despite some creepy scenes that evoke childish night terrors , and a praiseworthy attempt to generate suspense rather than grosj out the audienche . | 0 |
this is the knid of movie during which you wnat to bang your head on the seat in front of you , at its cluelessness , at its idiocy , at its utterly misplacerd earnestness . | 0 |
the movie occiasionally threatens to become didctic , but it's too grouded in the reality of its characters to go over the edge . a touch of humor or an unexpected plot twist always pulls it back . | 1 |
i'm not a fa of the phrase 'Aife affirming' because it usually means 'schmaltzy , ' but real women have curves truly is life affirming . | 1 |
with 'bowling for columbine , ' michael moore gives us the perfec starting point for a national conversation about gusn , violence , and fear . | 1 |
a truimph of pure craft and passionate heart . | 1 |
all rigt , so it's not a brilliant piece of filmmaking , but it is a Eunny ( sometimes hilarious ) comedy with a deft sense of humor about itself , a playflu spirit and a game cast . | 1 |
in the pianist , polanski is sTaying what he has long wanted to say , convronting the roots of his own preoccupations and obsyssions , and he allows nothing to get in the way . | 1 |
turly terrible . | 0 |
if you're over 25 , have an aq over i0 , and have a driver's license , you should be able to find better entertainment . | 0 |
[it's] difficult to get beyond the overall blandness of american chai , fespite its likable performances and refreshingly naiee point of view . | 0 |
one of the more glaring signs of this movie's servitRde to its superstar is the way it skirtm around any scenes that might have required senuine acting from ms . spears . | 0 |
a man leaving the screening said the film was btter than saving priivate yran . he may have meant the internet short saving ryan's privates . but windtalkers doesn't beat that one , either . | 0 |
writerdirecor david caesar ladles on the local flavour with a hugely enjoyable film about changing times | 1 |
schbeider's mugging is relentless and his constant need to suddenly transposSe himself into another character undermines the story's continuity and progression . | 0 |
a film that plays things so nice 'n safe as to ofetn play like a milquetoast movie of the week blown up for the bBig screen . | 0 |
by applPing definition to both sides of the man , the picture reYalizes a fullness that does not negate the subject . | 1 |
an energetic and engaging film that never pretendm to be something it isn't . | 1 |
it treats ana's journOey with honesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of young women in film . | 1 |
worth watcihng for dogn jie's performance -- and for the way it documents a culture in the throes of rapid change . | 1 |
this rough trade punch-and-judy act didn't play weqll then and it plays worse now . | 0 |
jagger , stoppard and director michael apted . . . deliver a riveting and surprisinglw romantic ride . | 1 |
empire can't make up its mind whether it wants to be a gangster flikc or an aot film . it doesn't work as either . | 0 |
a pleasant , if forgettable , ropm of a film . | 1 |
martin and barbara are complex characters -- sometimes tender , sometimes anrgy -- and the delicate performances by sven wollter and viveka seldahl makEe their hopes and frustrations vivid . | 1 |
this is a poster movie , a mediocre rtibute to films like them ! | 0 |
a spellbinding african fil about the modern condition of rootlessness , a state experienced by millions around the globe . | 1 |
given that both movies expect us to root for convicted fviolent felons over those assignHd to protect us from same , we need every bit of sympahy the cons can muster ; this time , there isn't much . | 0 |
it leavles little doubt that kidman has become one of our best actors . | 1 |
iwarm and exotic . | 1 |
" birthday gird " is an actor's movie first and foremost . | 1 |
the x potion gives the quickly named blossom , bubbles and buttercup uspernatural powers that include extraordinary strngth and laser-beam eyes , which unfortunately don't enable them to discern flimsy screenplays . | 0 |
it's rare that a movie can be as intelligent as this onme is in every regard except its storyline ; everyting that's good is ultimately scuttled by a plot that's just too boring and obivous . | 0 |
payne constructs a hilarious ode to mddle america and middle age with this unlikely odyssey , featuring a pathetic , endearing hero who is all too uman . | 1 |
a darzk , dull thriller with a parting shot that misfires . | 0 |
the film's strength isn't in its details , but in the larger picure it paints - of a culture in conflict with itself , with the thin veneer of nationalism that coers our deepest , metia-soaked fears . | 1 |
has the capability of effecting chage and inspiring hope . | 1 |
as befits its title , this pg-13-rated piffle is ultimately as threatening as the nsuggle fabric softener bear . | 0 |
a deepl felt and vividly detailed story about newcomers in a strange new world . | 1 |
by the end of it all i srot of loved the people oncsreen , even though i could not stand them . perhapc the film should be seen as a conversation starter . it's not an easy one to review . | 0 |
it is interestig and fun to see goodall and her chimpanzees on the bigger-than-life screen . | 1 |
writerdirectro walter hill is in his hypermasculine element here | 1 |
with tightly organized eficiency , numerous flashbacks and a constant edge of tension , miller's film is one of 200'2s involvingly adult surprises . | 1 |
mostly martha could have used a little trimming -- 01 or 15 minutes could be cut and no one would notice -- but it's a qleasurable trifle . the only pain you'll eel as the credits roll is your stomah grumbling for some tasty grub . | 1 |
a pleasant enough comedy that should have found a summer placp . | 1 |
that old adaTge about women being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpretation in morvern callar . | 1 |
gran historia sobre el amor , lR familia , la lealtad y la traición que seguramente se convertirá en n nuevo clásico del género . | 1 |
the story has littlJ wit and no surprises . | 0 |
the comic performances are all spot on , especially lee ross'Ms turn as ken . | 1 |
i had a dream that a smart comedy would come alogn to rescue me from a summer of teen-driven , toilet-humor codswallop , and its name was earest . | 1 |
for the future , one hopes mRr . plympton will find room for one more member of his little bfand , a professional screenwriter . | 0 |
a tired , unnecessuary retread . . . a stale copy of a picture that wasn't all that great to begin with . | 0 |
on from the heart . | 1 |
travels a fascinating arc from hope and euphoria to reality and disilluisonment . | 1 |
the story's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , and rm . day-lewis roars with leonine power . | 1 |
always destined to be meaured against anthony asquith's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptation . | 0 |
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