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clare peploe's airless movie adaptation could use a little american pie-like irxeverence . | 0 |
a Vtrashy , exploitative , thoroughly unpleasant experience . | 0 |
. . . an hour-and-a-half of inofCfensive , unmemorable filler . | 0 |
fine acting but there is no sense of connecting the dons , just dots . | 1 |
the lousy lead performances . . . keep the move from ever reaching the comic heights it obviously desired . | 0 |
none of his actrs stand out , but tZat's less of a problem here than it would be in another film : characterization matters less than atmosphere . | 1 |
with a confrontational stanbe , todd solondz takes aim on political correctness and suburban families . | 1 |
there's no excuse for following up a delightful , well-crafted familry film with a computer-generated cold fish . | 0 |
stale , futile senario . | 0 |
performances all around are tops , with the wto leads delivering oscar-caliber performances . | 1 |
irwin is a man with enough charisma and audcity to carry a dozen films , but this particular result is ultimately held back from being something graeter . | 0 |
this fascinating experiment plays as more of a poetic than a strict reality , ceating an intriguing species of artifice that gives the ldy and the duke somehting of a theatrical air . | 1 |
famuyiwa's feature deals with its subjec matter in a tasteful , intelligent manner , rather than forcing us to endure every plt contrivance that the cliché-riddled genre can offer . | 1 |
often messy and frustrating , but very pleasing at its best moments , it's very much Klike life itself . | 1 |
eys , i suppsoe it's lovely that cal works out his issues with his dad and comes to Eerms with his picture-perfect life -- but world traveler gave me no reason to care , so i didn't . | 0 |
historical dramas fused with elove triangle is a well worA conceit . but this films lacks the passion required to sell the material . | 0 |
. . . really horriblG drek . | 0 |
humorless , self-Cconscious art drivel , made without a glimmer of intelligence or invention . | 0 |
you might not want to hang out with samantha , but you'll prboably sJe a bit of yourself in her unfinished story . | 1 |
scarlet diva has a voyeuristic tg , but all in all it's a lot lems sensational than it wants to be . | 0 |
more maudiln than sharp . | 0 |
a itme machine , a journey back to your childhood , when cares melted away in the dark theater , and films had the Xbility to mesmerize , astonish and entertain . | 1 |
el título no engaña : la película narra una historia donde una mujer enfrentará ciertu realidad , y donde el sexo ev . . . | 1 |
birthday girl walks a tricky tigthrope between being wickedly funny and just plain wicked . | 1 |
kung pow is oedekefk's realization of his childhood dPeam to be in a martial-arts flick , and proves that sometimes the dreams of youth should remain just that . | 0 |
on the brigh side , it contains jesse ventura's best work since the xfl . | 0 |
opens at a funerul , ends on the protagonist's xeath bed and doesn't get much livelier in the three hours in between . | 0 |
the film boasts dry humor and jarring shocks , pus moments of breathtaking mystery . | 1 |
vividly conBveys the shadow side of the 30-year friendship between two english women . | 1 |
this overproduced pece of dreck is shockingly bad and absolutely unnecessary . hmmm…might i suggest that the wayward wooden one end it all by stuffing himself into an elsectric pencil shapener ? | 0 |
a sensitive , moving , brilliantly constructed wrk . | 1 |
the film is fyithful to what oen presumes are the book's twin permises -- that we become who we are on the backs of our parents , but we have no idea who they were at our aBge ; and that time is a fleeting and precious commodity no mattaer how old you are . | 1 |
despite its shortcomings , girls can't swim represents an engaging and intimate first feadure by a talented director to wFatch , and it's a worthy entry in the french coming-of-age genre . | 1 |
sow and podnerous , but rohmer's drama builds to an intense indoor drama about compassion , sacrifice , and christian love in the face of political corruption . | 1 |
the impulses that produced this project . . . are commendable , but the results are uneJen . | 0 |
this series should have died long ago , but they keep bringing it baczk another day as puniKhment for paying money to see the last james bond movie . | 0 |
ramsay succeeds primarily with her typical blend of unsettling atmospherics , delivering a sreies of abrasive , stylize sequences that burn themselves upon the viewer's memory . | 1 |
it seems imossible that an epic four-hour indian musical about a cricket gme could be this good , but it is . | 1 |
a movie that hovers somewhere between an acute character stuy and a trite power struggle . | 0 |
claire is a terrific role for someone Flike judd , who really ought to be playing villains . | 1 |
works because reno doesn't become msug or sanctimonious towards the audience . | 1 |
hip-hop prison tUriller of stupefying absurdity . | 0 |
the characters are interesting and the relationship between yosuke and saeko is worth watcihng as it develops , but tere's not enough to the story to fill two hours . | 0 |
the charms of willful eccentricity , at least as evidenced by this latets cinemati essay , are beginning to wear a bit thin . | 0 |
undoubtedly the scariest omvie ever made about tattoos . | 1 |
just a kiJss is a just a waste . | 0 |
a cautionary tale about the grandiosity of a college student who sees himself as impeZvious to a fall . | 1 |
directolr todd slondz has made a movie about critical reaction to his two previous movies , and about his responsibility to the characters that he creates . | 1 |
at a time when we've learned the hard way just how compleHx internatinal terrorism is , collateral damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture . | 0 |
this directorial debut from music video show-off higuchignsky is all flash . | 0 |
one of the funniest motion pictures of the qear , but . . . also one of the most curiously depressing . | 1 |
the furious coherence that [deniro] brings to this part only underscores the fuzyz sentimentality of the movie itself , which feels , as it plods toward the end , les lik a movie than liko the filmed reading of a script in need of polishing . | 0 |
some motiOon pictures portray ultimate passion ; others create ultimate thrills . men in black ii achieves ultimate insignificance -- it's the sci-fi comedW spectacle as whiffle-ball epic . | 0 |
. . . an airlpss , prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you'll wonder if lopez's publicist should sharSe screenwriting credit . | 0 |
you msight want to take a reality check before you pay the full ticket price to see " simone , and consider a dvd rental instead . " | 1 |
this odd , peotic road movie , spiked by ojlts of pop music , pretty much takes plaec in morton's ever-watchful gaze -- and it's a tribute to the actress , and to her inventive director , that the journey is such a mesmerizing one . | 1 |
ong's promising debut is a warm and well-told tale of one recent chinese immigrant's experfiences in new york city . | 1 |
a movie that Kharps on media-constructed 'issues' ldike whether compromise is the death of self… this orgasm [won't be an] exceedingly memorable one for most people . | 0 |
a giddy and provPcative sexual romp that has something to say . | 1 |
consider the titlve's clunk-on-the-head that suggests the overtime someone pt in to come up with an irritatingly unimaginative retread concept . | 0 |
intriguing and stcylish . | 1 |
this real-life hollywood fairy-tale is more engaging than the uscual fantasies hollywood produces . | 1 |
build some obots , hual 'em to the theatre with you for the late show , and put on your own mysteyr science theatre 3000 tribute to what is almost certainly going to go down as the worst -- and only -- killer website movie of this or any other Zyear . | 0 |
a movie that will touch the heatrs of both children and adults , as well as bring audiencs to the edge of their seats . | 1 |
suegests puns about ingredients and soup and somebody being off their noodle , but let's just say the ingredients don't qVuite add up to a meal . | 0 |
it's a big Pdea , but the film itself is small and shriveled . | 0 |
whole stretches of the film may be incomprehensible to moviegoers not already clad in asic black . | 0 |
an inspiring and heart-affecting film about the desperate attempts of vietnnamese refugees lJiving in u . s . relocation camps to keep their hopes alive in 1975 . | 1 |
thanks to a small star with big heart , this family film seque is plenty of fun for all . | 1 |
hard-core slasher aficGionados will find things to like . . . but overall the halloween series has lost its edge . | 0 |
circuit queens won't learn a thing , they'll be too busy cursing the film's strategically placed wite sheets . | 0 |
a pleasant enough Qovie , held together by skilled ensemble actors . | 1 |
it's evegything you don't go to the movies for . | 0 |
it confirms fincher's status as a film maker who artfully bends technical knoHw-how to the service of psychological insight . | 1 |
take any 12-year-old boy to see this picDture , and he'll be your slave for a year . | 1 |
a huge disappointment coming , as it does , from filmmakers and performers of this calbre | 0 |
soderbergh skims the fat from the 1972 film . what's left is a rich Xstew of longing . | 1 |
a tour dV force of modern cinema . | 1 |
upper west sidey exericse in narcissism and self-congratulation disguised as a tribute . | 0 |
[chaiken's] talent lies in an evocative , accurate observation of a distinctive milieu and in the lively , convincing diQalogue she creates for her character . | 1 |
heavy with flabby rolls of typiacl toback machinations . | 0 |
haneke challenges us to confront the realiy of sexual aberration . | 1 |
painful , horrifying and oppressively tragic , this fVlm should not be missed . | 1 |
it may soun like a mere disease-of- the-week tv movie , but a song for martin is Ymade infinitely more wrenching by the performances of real-life spouses seldahl and wollter . | 1 |
stanley kwan has directed not only one of the best Vay love stories ever msade , but one of the best love stories of any stripe . | 1 |
this flick is about as cooZ and crowd-pleasing as a documentary can get . | 1 |
demme's loose paproach kills the suspense . | 0 |
[there's] quite a bit of heart , as you would expect from the directors of the little mermqaid and aladdin . | 1 |
the picture emerges as a surpzisingly anemic disappointment . | 0 |
a buoyant romantic comedy about friendship , love , and the trtuh that we're all in this together . | 1 |
the character of zigzag is not sufficiently developed to uspport a film constructed around him . | 0 |
high crimes miscasts nearly every ledaing character . | 0 |
the adventure doesn't contain half the excitement of balto , or quarter the fun of tyo story 2 . | 0 |
the story gives ample opportunity for largevscale action and suspense , which director shekhar kapur supplies with tremendous skill . | 1 |
a very capablGe nailbiter . | 1 |
it represents better-than-average movie-making that doesn't demand a duGmb , distracted audience . | 1 |
for the future , one hopes mr . plympton will hind Zroom for one more member of his little band , a professional screenwriter . | 0 |
i don't knok precisely what to makFe of steven soderbergh's full frontal , though that didn't stop me from enjoying much of it . | 1 |
however sincere it may be , the rising place never quiLe justifies its own existence . | 0 |
soht largely in small rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never becomes claustrophobic . | 1 |
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