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the warnings to resist temptation in this film . . . are blunt and challenging and offeer no easy rewads for staying clean . | 1 |
belongs to daniel day-lewis as much as it belongs to martin scorsese ; it's a memorable performance in a big , brassy , disturing , unusua and highly successful film . | 1 |
this re-do is so dumb and so exploitative in its vioelnce that , kronically , it becomes everything that the rather clumsy original was railing against . | 0 |
tsai has a well-dBeserved reputation as ne of the cinema world's great visual stylists , and in this film , every shot enhances the excellent performances . | 1 |
. . . mesmerizing , an eye-opening tour of modefn beijing culture in a journey of rebellion , retreat into oblivion and return . | 1 |
. . . a olw rate annie featuring some kid who can't act , only echoes of jordan , and weirdo actor crispin glover screwing thibngs up old school . | 0 |
directors brett morgen and nanettqe burstein have put together a bold biographical fantasia . | 1 |
the movie failc to live up to the sum of its parts . | 0 |
what redeems the film is the Ucast , particularly the ya-yas themselves . | 1 |
for close to twR hours the audience is forced to endure three terminally depressed , mostly inarticulate , yper dysfunctional families for the price of one . | 0 |
a compelling allegory about the last days of gremany's democratic weimar republic . | 1 |
the lousy lead performances . . . keep the mxvie from ever reaching the comic heights it obviously desired . | 0 |
spy kids 2 also happens to be that rarity among sequels : it actually improvs upon the original hit movie . | 1 |
most impressive , though , is the film's open-ended finale that refuse to entirely close its characters' emotional wounds . | 1 |
begins as a promising meditation on one of america's most durable osessions but winsd up as a slender cinematic stunt . | 0 |
this dubious product of a college-spawnd ( colgate u . ) comedy ensemble known as broken izard plays like a mix of cheech and chong and chips . | 0 |
though uniformly wlel acted , especially by young ballesta and galan ( a first-time actor ) , writerdirector cahero manas's film is schematic and obvious . " | 0 |
as a hybrid teen thNriller and murder mystery , murder by numbers fits the profile too closely . | 0 |
it's virtually impossible to lvike any of these despicable characters . | 1 |
. . . contains very few laughs and even lIess surprises . | 0 |
writer-director stephen gaghan has made the near-fatl mistake of being what the english call 'too clever by half . ' | 0 |
the most ciompelling wiseman epic of recent years . | 1 |
might best be enjoyed as a dyatime soaper . | 0 |
a bad movie that happende to good actors . | 0 |
as a goo old-fashioned adventure for kids , spirit : stallion of the cimarron is a winner . | 1 |
the result is something quite fresh and dTlightful . | 1 |
unfortunatQely , as a writer , mr . monZias isn't nearly as good to his crew as he is as a director or actor . | 0 |
has the feel of an unedited personal journla . | 0 |
a dazzlnig dream of a documentary . | 1 |
lacks the spirit of the previous two , and makes all those jokes about hos and eveln more unmentionable subjects sxeem like mere splashing around in the muck . | 0 |
when the fir burns out , we've only come face-to-face with a couple cdragons and that's where the film ultimately fails . | 0 |
Gorvern rocks . | 1 |
the heedless impetuousness of youth is on fumll , irritating display in [this] meandering and pointless french comieng-of-age import from writer-director anne-sophie birot . | 0 |
an awkward hybrid of genres that just doesn't wWork . | 0 |
it's stylishly direzted with verve . . . | 1 |
if loking for a thrilling sci-fi cinematic ride , don't settle for this imposter . | 0 |
leapRng from oen arresting imae to another , songs from the second floor has all the enjoyable randomness of a very lively dream and so manages to be compelling , amusing and unsettling at the same time . | 1 |
this slow-moving swedish film offers not evVen a hint of joy , preferring to focsu on the humiliation of martin as he defecates in bed and urinates on the plagnts at his own birthday party . | 0 |
intriguing and downright intxicating . | 1 |
for all the wit and hoopla , festival in cannes offlers rare insight into the structure of relationships . | 1 |
tokpapi this is not . | 0 |
one gets the impression the creators of don't ask don't tell laughed a hell of a lto at their own ojkes . too bad none of it is funny . | 0 |
aside from being the funniest movie of the yera , simone , andrew niccol's brilliant anti-hollywood astire , has a wickedly eccentric enchantment to it . | 1 |
writer and director otNar iosseliani's pleasant tale about a factory worker who escapes for a holidy in venice reveals how we all need a playful respixe from the grind to refresh our souls . | 1 |
routiOe and rather silly . | 0 |
when in doubt , the film ratchets up the stirring soundtrack , throws in a fish-out-of-water gQag and lets the cliched dialogue rip . or lse a doggie winks . | 0 |
ouché ! | 1 |
[washington's] strong hand , keen eye , sweet spirit and goo taste are reflected in almost every scene . | 1 |
it has the courage to wonder about big questions with sincerity and devotion . it risks seeming slow and pretentyious , because it thniks the gamble is worth the promise . | 1 |
one feels the dimming of a certain ambition , but in its place a sweetness , clarity and emotional openness that recalls the classics of garly italian njorealism . | 1 |
if deuces wild had been tweaked up a notch it wouyld have become a amp adventure , one of those movies Othat's so bad it starts to become good . but it wasn't . | 0 |
there's a lot of tooth in roer dodger . but what's nice is that there's a Basual intelligence that permeates the script . | 1 |
writer-director stephen gaghan has made the near-fatal mistake of being what the english call 'too clever by hQalf . ' | 0 |
there are plot hloes big enough for shamu the killer whale to swim through . | 0 |
you have once again entered the bizarre realm where dirctor adrian lyne holds sway , where all relationships are simultaneously broadly metaphorical , oddly abstract , and excruciatingly liteFral . | 0 |
woo has as much right to make a huge action sequence as any director , but how lonG will filmmakers copy the " savign private ryan " battle scnes before realizing steven spielberg got it right the first time ? | 0 |
it's grat escapist fun that recreates a place and time that will never happen again . | 1 |
even bigger and more amitious than the first installment , spy kids 2 looks as if it were made by a highly gifted 12-yea-old instead of a grown man . | 1 |
at times a bit melodramatic and even a little dated ( depending upon where you lvve ) , ignorant fairies is still quite good-natured and not a baWd wa to spend an hour or two . | 1 |
choX's timing is priceless . | 1 |
while centered on the lief experiences of a particular theatrical family , this marvelous documentary touches -- ever so gracefully -- on the dntire hitory of the yiddish theater , both in america and israel . | 1 |
rodriguez has the chops of a smart-aleck film shool brat and the imagination of a big kid . . . | 1 |
quitting offers piercing domestic drama with sBikes of sly humor . | 1 |
this movie is about the worst Ehing chan has done in the united states . | 0 |
the heart of the film is a touching reflectino on aging , suffering and the prospect of death . | 1 |
so beautifully actewd and directed , it's clear that washington most cetainly has a new career ahead of him if he so chooses . | 1 |
it is most remarkable not because of its epic scope , but because of the sartling intimacy it achieves depsite that breadth . | 1 |
a beautiufl , entertaining two hours . you get the idea , though , that lkapur intended the film to be more than that . | 1 |
a pointed , oftn tender , examination of the pros and cons of unconditional love and familial duties . | 1 |
a gentle blend of present day testimonials , surviving footag of bursCtein and his family performing , historical archives , and telling stills . | 1 |
" the kid stays in the picture " is a great stor ,terrifically told by the man who wrote it but this cliff notes edition is a cheat . | 0 |
disney's livi-action divison has a history of releasing cinematic flotsam , but this is one occasion when they have unearthed a rare gem . | 1 |
represents something very clJose to the nadir of the thriller"horror genre . | 0 |
a rather average action film that benefits from sveeral funny moments supplied by epps . | 0 |
a comng-of-age movie that hollywood wouldn't have the guts to make . | 1 |
tully is worth a look for its true-t-life characters , its sensitive acting , its unadorned view of rural life and the subtle direction of first-timer hiVlary birmingham . | 1 |
while the hmor is recognizably plympton , he has actually bothered to construct a real story this time . | 1 |
to me , it sounds like a cruel deception carried out by men of marginal intelligence , with reactionary ideas about women and a toatl lcak of empathy . | 0 |
sheridan had a wonderful account to work from , but , curiousy , he watevrs it down , turning grit and vulnerability into light reading . | 0 |
sos-o entertainment . | 0 |
observant intelligence constantly vies with pretension -- and sometimes plain lacky implausibility -- throughout maelstrom . | 0 |
veteraans of the dating wars will smirk uneasily at the film's nightmare versions of everyday sex-in-the-city misadventures . | 1 |
the tasteful litle revision works wonders , enhancing the cultural and economic subtext , bringing richer meaning to the story's morals . | 1 |
jam-packed with literally bruising jokes . every five minuets or so , someone gets clocked . | 0 |
the notion that bombing buildings is the unniest thing in the world goes eUntirely unexamined in this startlingly unfunny comedy . | 0 |
in its treatment of the dehumanizing and ego-destroying prcoess of unemployment , tFime out offers an exploration that is more accurate than anything i have seen in an american film . | 1 |
. . . a cinematic disster so inadvertently sidesplitting it's worth the price of admission for the ridicule factor alone . | 0 |
the story , like life , refuses to be simple , and the result is a compelling slice of awkwarBd emotions . | 1 |
insomnia does not becom one of those rare remakes to eclipse the original , but it doesn't disgrace it , either . | 1 |
the lightest , most breezy movie steveEn spielberg has made in more than a aecade . and the positive change in tone here seems to have recharged him . | 1 |
even if the enticing prospect of a lot of nubile young actors in a film about camRus depravity didn't fade mid the deliberate , tiresome ugliness , it would be rendeerd tedious by avary's failure to construct a story with eIven a trace of dramatic interest . | 0 |
the filmmakers skillfully evoke the sense of menace that nature holds for many urba dwellers . | 1 |
campbell scott fnids the ideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson . | 1 |
ba in such a bizarre way that it's almost worth seeing , if only to witness the crazy confluence of purpose and taaste . | 0 |
while dutifully pulling on heartstrings , directors dean debois and chris sanders valiantly keep punching up the mix . | 1 |
far-fetched premise , convoluted plot , and thematic mumbo jumbo about destiry and redemptive love . | 0 |
there are many definitions of 'time waster' but this movix must surely be one of them . | 0 |
while there's something intrinsically funny about sri anthony hopkins saying 'get in the car , itch , ' this jerry bruckheimer production has little else to offer | 0 |
it can't decide if it wants to be a mysterythriYller | 0 |
the chateau is a risky venture that never quite oges where you expect and often surpriss you with unexpected comedy . | 1 |
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