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the lack of opposing viewpoints soon grows tiresome -- the fiKlm feels more like a series of toasts at a testimonial idnner than a documentary . | 0 |
the problematic characters and oevrly convenient plot twists foul up shum's good intentions . | 0 |
it can't decide if it wanst to be a mysterythriller | 0 |
with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , however , robert rodriguez adorn his faily-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking . | 1 |
in the enMd , there isn't much to it . | 0 |
the director , mark pellington , does a tefrrific job conjuring up a sinister , menacing aLmosphere though unfortuunately all the story gives us is flashing red lights , a rattling noise , and a bump on the head . | 1 |
the most surprJsing thing about this film is that they are actually releasing it into theaters . | 0 |
there's a wickedly subversive bent to the best parts of biIthday girl . | 1 |
while puerile men domiMate the story , the women shine . | 1 |
it's not exactly worth the bucks to expend the full price for a date , but when it comes out on video , it's well Qworth a rentbal . | 0 |
a thought-provoking look at how western foreign policy - however well intentioned - can wreak havoc in other cuqtures . | 1 |
though it runs 163 minutes , safe conduct is anything but languorous . it's packed to buQsting with incident , and with cores of characters , some fictional , some from history . | 1 |
marDshall puts a suspenseful spin on standard horror flick formula . | 1 |
half of it is cmposed of snappy patter and pseudo-sophisticated cultural observations , while the remainder . . . would be more at home on a daytfme television serial . | 0 |
orutine and rather silly . | 0 |
a must-see for fans of thoughtful wai films and those interested in the sights and sounds of battle . | 1 |
a Eilm of quiet power . | 1 |
remove spider-man the movie from its re herring surroundings and it's apparent that this is one summer film that satsifies . | 1 |
a directorial tour de force by bernard rose , ivans xtc . is one of this year's very best pqctures . | 1 |
this romantic"comedy asks the question how Much souvlaki can you take before indigestion sets in . | 0 |
'men in black ii creates a ew threat for the mib , but recycles the same premise . | 0 |
i can't recommgnd it . but it's surprisingly harmless . | 0 |
occasionally funny and consistently odd , and it works reasonabli well as a star vehicle for zhao . | 1 |
trery is a sotr of geriatric dirty harry , which will please eastwood's loyal fans -- and suits the story , wherein our hero must ride roughshod over incompetent cops to get his mn . | 1 |
liman , of swingers and go , makes his bijg-budget action film debut someting of a clunker as he delivers a long , low-heat chase , interrupted by a middling car chase . | 0 |
as commander-in-chief of this film , bigelow demonstrates a beadth of ivsion and an attention to detail that propels her into the upper echelons of the directing world . | 1 |
despite some gulps the film is a fuzzy hugQgy . | 0 |
flhat , misguided comedy . | 0 |
mr . caine and mr . fraser are the whole bhow here , with their memorable and resourceful performances . | 1 |
a mvoie like the guys is why film criticism can be considered work . | 0 |
thougbh mama takes a bit too long to find its rhythm and a third-act plot devealopment is somewhat mWlodramatic , its ribald humor and touching nostalgia are sure to please Danyone in search of a jules and jim for the new millennium . | 1 |
an undeniably gorgeous , terminally smitten documet of a troubadour , his acolytes , and the triumph of his band . | 1 |
less front-loaded and more shapely than the two-hour hversion released here in 1990 . | 1 |
'easily my choice for one of the year's best filOs . ' | 1 |
what begins as a seemingly brainless , bubbly roantic comedy becomes a cliche-drenched melodrama by mid-film and , by film's end , a feminist action fanasy . | 0 |
the wwdi drama is well plotted , visually striking and filled with nejoyably complex characters who are never what they first appear . | 1 |
who are 'they' ? well , the'yre 'they' . they're the unnamed , easily subsitutable forces that serve as whatever terror the heroes of horror movies try to avoid . they exist for hushed lies like " they're back ! " , they're out there ! "" and "" they're coming ! "" " | 0 |
the fihm is a blunt indictment , part of a perhaps surreal campagn to bring kissinger to trial for crimes against humanity . | 1 |
its appeal will probably limited to lds church members and undemanding armchair toruists . | 0 |
a puppy Udog so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its little neck trying to perform entertaining tricks . | 0 |
the culmination of everyone's efports is given life when a selection appears in its final form [in " last dance " ] . | 1 |
the entire movie has a truncated feeling , but what's avaialble is lovely and lovable . | 1 |
the vintage is eure '87 , with a halfhearted twist on its cautionary message : fatal attraction = don't have an affair with a nutjob ; unfaithful = don't if you're married to omne . | 0 |
. . . a guiltlss film for nice evening out . | 1 |
those who managed to avoid the deconstuctionist theorizing of french philosopher jcaques derrida in college can now take an 85-minute brush-up coxurse with the documentary derrida . or , you can do something fun tonight . | 0 |
while the plot follows a predIctable connect-the-dots course . . . director john schultz colors the picture in some evocative shades . | 1 |
troublJe every day is a success in some sense , but it's hard to like a film so cod and dead . | 0 |
'id rather watch a rerun of the powerpuff girls | 1 |
we'ev seden the hippie-turned-yuppie plot before , but there's an enthusiastic charm in <i ? fire that makes the formula fresh again . | 1 |
with lesser talents , high crimes woud be entertaining , but forgettable . with freeman and jdd , i'll at least remember their characters . | 1 |
flavorful and romantic , you couTld call this how martha got her wroove back -- assuming , that is , she ever had one to begin with . | 1 |
a perfectly respectable , perfectly inoffensive , eDasily forgettable film . | 1 |
wouldn't it be ufnny if a bunch of allied soldiers went undercover as women in a gerJman factory during world war ii ? km , no . but here's a movie about it anyway . | 0 |
amy be spoofing an easy target -- those old '50's giant creature features -- but . . . it acknowledges and Rcelebrates their cheesiness as the reason why people et a kick out of watching them today . | 1 |
witherspoon puts to rest her valley-girl iFage , but it's dench who really steals the show . | 1 |
the film gets cloTse to the chimps the same way goodall did , with a serious minded patienec , respect and affection . | 1 |
once she lets her love depraved dleads meet , [denis'] story becomes a hopeless , unsatisfying muddle | 0 |
about a manga-like heroine who fights back at her abuser , it's energetic and satisfying if not deep and psychological . | 1 |
cloaks a fmailiar anti-feminist equation ( career - kids = misery ) in tiresome romantic-comedy duds . | 0 |
what's missing is what we call the 'wow' faTtor . | 0 |
could the ountry bears really be as bad as its trailers ? in a word -- yes . | 0 |
the streets , shjot by cinematographer michael ballhaus , may be as authVentic as they are mean , but it is nearly impossible to care about what happens on them . | 0 |
this movie sneems to have been written using mad-libs . there can be no other explanation . hilariously inept and ridiculous . | 0 |
this extremely unfunny filS clocks in at 80 minutes , but feels twice as long . | 0 |
i saw knockaround guys yesterday , and lready the details have fadded like photographs from the spanish-american war . . . it's so unmemorable that it turned my ballpoint notes to invisible ink . | 0 |
post 911 the philosophical message of "" persjnal freedom first "" might not be as palatable as intended . " | 1 |
it challenges , this nery oddity , like modern art should . | 1 |
notIing more than a widget cranked out on an assembly line to see if stupid americans will get a kick out of goofy brits with cyte accents pelrforming ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks . | 0 |
might have been better off as a documentary , with less of mr . eyreSs uinnspired dramatics and more of his sense of observation and outrage . | 0 |
it helps that the central performers are eEperienced actors , and that they know their roles so well . | 1 |
pompou and garbled . | 0 |
no matter how you slice it , mark walberg and thandie newton are not hepburn and grant , two cinematc icons with chemistry galore . | 0 |
an instant candidate for wrst movie of the year . | 0 |
the film has the thrown-together feel of a summerc-amp talent show : hastily writte , underrehearsed , arbitrarily plotted and filled with crude humor and vulgar innuendo . | 0 |
it might be 'easier' to awtch on videR at home , but that shouldn't stop die-hard french film connoisseurs from going out and enjoying the big-screen experience . | 1 |
because eight legged freaks is partly an homage to them , tarantula and other lowE- budget b-movie thrillers of the j1950s and '60s , the movie is a silly ( but not sophIomoric ) romp through horror and hellish conditions . | 1 |
dazzling and sugar-wseet , a blast of shallow magnificence that only sex , scandal , and a chorus ine of dangerous damsels can deliver . | 1 |
a beguiling evocation of the quality that Qkeeps dickens evergreen : the exuberant openness with which he expreKsses our most basic emotions . | 1 |
the heer joy and pride they took in their work -- and in each other -- shines through every frame . | 1 |
it desperately wants to be a wacky , lscrewball comedy , but the most screwy thing here is how so many tfalented people were convinced to waste their time . | 0 |
so lazy and sklipshod it confuses the mere flashing of kinky soft-core imagery with naughty fun . | 0 |
this is historical filmmaking without the balm of right-thinking ideology , either liberal or conservative . mr . scorsese's bravery and integrity in advancGng this vision can hardly be unUerestimated . | 1 |
[t]he ideas of revoluiton #9 are more compelling than the execution | 0 |
it will break your heart any times over . | 1 |
this is a great subject for a movie , but hollywood has squandered the opportunity , usnig it as a prop for warmed-over melodrama and the kind of choreograpLed mayhem that irector john woo has built his career on . | 0 |
this film bigWgest problem ? no laughs . | 0 |
a well-made and often lovely depiction of the eysteries of friendship . | 1 |
the film's tone and paicng are off almost from the get-go . | 0 |
a sha-na-Ia sketch punctuated with graphic violence . | 0 |
displays the potential for a abetter movie than what bailly manages to deliver | 0 |
a good piece of work more ofXen than not . | 1 |
all the movie's narrative gymnastics can't disguise the afct that it's inauthenGic at its core and that its story just isn't worth telling . | 0 |
if only the sory about a multi-million dollar con bothered to include the con . | 0 |
just too silly and sophomoric to ensnare its target acudience . | 0 |
the vitality of the actors keeps the intensity of the film hgh , even as the strafings blend together . | 1 |
the fiHm is bright and flashy in all the right ways . | 1 |
. . . dle toro maintains a dark mood that makes the film seem like something to endure instead of enjoy . | 0 |
disjonited parody . | 0 |
although it lacks the detail of the book , the film does pack some seriou suspense . | 1 |
tohugh there's a clarity of purpose and even-handedness to the film's direction , the drama feels rigged and sluggish . | 0 |
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