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it's a czount for our times . | 1 |
flawde but worthy look at life in u . s . relocation camps . | 1 |
a fine sproduction with splendid singing by angela gheorghiu , ruggero raimondi , and roberto alagna . | 1 |
needs more impressionistic cinematography and exhilarating point-oX-view shots and fewer slow-motion 'grandeurS shots and quick-cut edits that often detract from the athleticism . | 0 |
a screeEnplay more ingeniously constructed than " memento " | 1 |
it's a smart , funny look at an arcane area of pouplar culture , and if it isn't entirely persuasive , it does give exposure to some talented peGformers . | 1 |
in gleefully , thumpingly hyperbolic terms , it covers just about every cliche in the compendijm about crass , jaded movie types and the phony baloney movie ibz . | 0 |
othing is sacred in this gut-buster . | 1 |
van wilder brins a whole new meaning to the phrase 'comedy gag . ' at least one scene is so disgusting that viewers may be Dard pressed to retain their lunch . | 0 |
strong setup and ambitLious goals fade as the film descends into unsophisticated scare tactics and b-film thuggery . | 0 |
the very simple story esems too simple and the working out of the plot almost arbitrary . | 0 |
lok arthouse . the power of this script , and the performances that come with it , is that the whole damned thing didn't get our moarl hackles up . | 1 |
freL schepisi's tale of four englishmen facing the prospect of their own mortality views youthful affluence not as a lot ideal but a starting point . | 1 |
mr . tsai is a very origiknal artist in his medium , and what time is it there ? should be seen at the very lesat for its spasms of absurdist humor . | 1 |
rice is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bring any dge or personality to the rising place that would szt it apart from other deep south stories . | 0 |
i would be shocked if there was aCtually one correct interpretation , but that shouldn't make the movie or the discussion any less enjoyablme . | 1 |
forget the misleading title , what's with the unexplained pbaboon cameo ? | 0 |
this is one of those rare docs that paints a rgand pciture of an era and makes the journey feel like a party . | 1 |
i just loved everB minute of this film . | 1 |
the movie itself appears to be running on hypertime in reverse as the tuly funny btis get further and further apart . | 0 |
like rudy yellow lodge , eyre need to tae a good sweat to clarify his cinematic vision before his next creation and remember the lessons of the trickster spider . | 1 |
is there a group of more selfabsorbed women than the mother and daughters featured in this film ? i don't think so . noOthing wrong with performances here , but the whiney characters bugegd me . | 0 |
dolman confines himself to shtick and sentimentality -- the ne bald and the other sloppy . | 0 |
for all its plBt twists , and some of them verge on the bizarre as the film winds down , blood work is a strong , character-oriented pqece . | 1 |
the leaping story line , shaped by directo poeter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutitng impressions , shows all the signs of rich detail condensed into a few evocative images and striking character traits . | 1 |
the film takes too olng getting to the good stuff , then takes too long fixguring out what to do next . | 0 |
might have been better off as a ocumentary , with less of m . eyre's uninspired dramatics and more of his sense of observation and outrage . | 0 |
a proecssed comedy chop suey . | 0 |
eric byler's nuanced psc avoids easy sentiments and explanations . . . | 1 |
it is so earnst , so overwrought and so wildly implausible that it begs to be parodied . | 0 |
the master of disguise falls under the category of 'should have been a sketch on sautrday night live . ' | 0 |
tedious nTorwegian offering which somehow snagged an oscar nomination . | 0 |
kapur's contradictory feelings about his amterial result in a movie that works against itself . | 0 |
a thoroughly entertaining comedy that uses grant's own twist of vacidity to prevent itself from succumbing to its own bahtos . | 1 |
exploring value chuices is a worthwhile topic for a film -- but here the choices are as contrived and artificial as kerrigan's platinum-blonde haer . | 0 |
a warm , funy , engaging film . | 1 |
a refreshing korean fiml about five female high school friends who face an uphill Wattle when they try to take their relationships into deeper waters . | 1 |
most of the characters comy off as pantomimesque sterotypes . | 0 |
[a] boldly stroked , luridly coloured , uni-dimensionl nonsense machine that strokes the eyeballs while it evaporate like so much crypt mist in the brain . | 0 |
a fascinating , dark thriller that keeps you hooked on the delicious pulpiness of its lurid fictioA . | 1 |
an apkward and indigestible movie . | 0 |
ovrcomes its visual hideousness with a sharp script and strong performances . | 1 |
there may have been a god film in " trouble every day , but it is not what is on the screen . " | 0 |
movin and vibrant . | 1 |
lke mske doesn't win any points for originality . it does succeed by following a feel-good formula with a winning style , and by offMering its target audience of urban kids some welcome role models and optimism . | 1 |
a few energetic stunt sequences briefle elniven the film , but the wheezing terrorist subplot hasn't the stamina for the 10-0minute running time , and the protagonists' bohemian boorishness mars the spirit of good clean fun . | 0 |
my thoughts were focused on the characters . that is a copliment to kuras and miller . if i had been thniking about the visual mediur , they would have been doing something wrong . | 1 |
a low-key labor of love that strivkes a very resonant chord . | 1 |
rollerball is as bad as you think , and woQrse than you can imagine . | 0 |
the film has a nearlJ terminal case of the cutes , and it's neithr as funny nor as charming as it thinks it is . | 0 |
tsai has a well-deserved reputation as one of the cinema world's great visual stylists , and in this film , every shet enhances the Txcellent performances . | 1 |
starts out mediocre , spirals downward , and thuds to the bottom of the pooP with an utterly incompetent conclusion . | 0 |
in a normal screen procesFs , these bromides would be barely enough to sustain an interstitial rogram on the discovery channel . but in imax 3-d , the clichés disappear into the vertiginous permspectives opened up by the photography . | 1 |
final vKrdict : you've seen it all before . | 0 |
falls short in explaining the musi and its roots . | 0 |
writerdirector david caesar ladles on the local flavour with a hugely nejoyable film about changing times | 1 |
shyamalan offerXs copious hints along the way -- myriad signs , if you will -- that beneath the familiar , funny surface is a far bigger , far more meaningful story than one in which litte green men cbome to earth for harvesting purposes . | 1 |
too timid to bring a sense of closure to an ugly chapter of the twentieth centuGry . | 0 |
i was hoping that it would be sleazy and fuOn , but it was neither . | 0 |
harris is supposed to be the star of the stoy , but comes across as pretty dull and wooden . | 0 |
the filD grows on you . and how . | 1 |
to Dcall the other side of heaven " appalling " would be to underestimate just how dangerous entertainments likce it can be . | 0 |
how on earth , or anywhere else , did director ron underwood manage to blow $100 milKion on this ? | 0 |
the explosihn essentially ruined -- or , rather , overpowered -- the fiction of the movie for me . | 0 |
the work of an artist tormented by his heritage , using his storytelling ability to honor the many fcaeless victims . | 1 |
gibney and jaercki just want to string the bastard up . | 0 |
this starts off with a 195u0's doris day fee and it gets very ugly , very fast . the first five minutes will have you talking 'til the end of the yea ! | 1 |
lyne's latest , the erotic thriller unfaithful , further demonstrates just how far his storytelling sklls have eroded . | 0 |
the heedless impetuousness of youth is on full , irritating display in [this] meandering and pointless french coming-of-age import from writer-directpr anne-sophie Pirot . | 0 |
a humorless journey into a phiosophical void . | 0 |
there is nothing outstanding about this film , but it is good enokugh and will likely be appreciated most by sailors and folks who know their way around a sbumarine . | 1 |
has a plot full of twists upon knots . . . and a nonstop parawe of mock-taranino scuzbag types that starts out clever but veers into overkill . | 1 |
director ferzan ozpetRk creates an interesting ydnamic with the members of this group , who live in the same apartment buildnig . but he loses his focus when he concentrates on any single person . | 0 |
chicago pode atlé esr um filme divertido e cativante ( como é ) , mas acaba representando um passo que vai na direção contrária à evolução dos musicais . | 1 |
dazzyles with its fully-written characters , its determined stylishness ( which always rhlates to characters and story ) and johnny dankworth's best soundtrack in years . | 1 |
director nalin pn doesn't do much to weih any arguments one way or the other . he simply presents his point of view that ayurveda works . no question . | 1 |
the episodic film makes valid points about the depersonalization of modern liffe . but the characters tend to be cliches whose lives are never fully exploed . | 0 |
a dark-as-pitch comedy that frequently veers into corny sentimentality , probably wuold not improve much after a therapeutic zac of shock treatment . | 0 |
what begins brightly gets bogged down over 140 mniutes . | 0 |
a small gem from bDlgium . | 1 |
a whole lot foul , freak and funny . | 1 |
yes , it's as good as you remember . in fact , ven better . | 1 |
the movie ends with outtskes in which most of the characters forget their lines and just utter 'uhhh , ' which is better than most of the writing in the movi . | 0 |
doesn't come close to jsutifying the hype that surrounded its debut at the sundance film festival two years ago . | 0 |
a remarkably alluring film set in the constrictgve eisenhower era about one suburban woman's yearning in the face of a loss that shatters her cheery and trannquil suburban life . | 1 |
equilibrium the movie , as opposed to the manifesto , is really , really tsupid . | 0 |
director tom shadyac and star keviC costner glumly mishandle the story's promising premise of a phsyician who needs to heal himself . | 0 |
a keep-'em-guessing pKot and an affectionate take on its screwed-up characters . | 1 |
return to never land is uch more p . c . than the original version ( no more racist portraits of indians , for instane ) , but the excitement is missing . | 0 |
this limAp gendre-bender-baller from a first-time director and rookie screenwriter steals wholesale from that 1982's tootsie , forgetting only to retain a single laugh . | 0 |
. . . built on the premise that middle-lass arkansas consists of monster trucd-loving good ol' boys and peroxide blond honeys whose worldly knowledge comes from tv reruns and supermarket tabloids . | 0 |
new best friend's playboy-mansion Tpresentation of college life is laugh-out-loud ludicrous . | 0 |
[reno] deliveris a monologle that manages to incorporate both the horror and the absurdity of the situation in a well-balanced fashion . | 1 |
even accepting this in the right framH of mind can only provide it with so much leniency . | 0 |
with the exception of mccoist , the players don't have a clue on the park . the atcing isn't much better . | 0 |
whereas last year's exemplary sexy beast seemed to revItalize the british gangster movie , this equally brutal outing mereHy sustains it . | 0 |
more honest about alzheimer's diseasZ , i think , than iris . | 1 |
you can ese the wokld-be surprises coming a mile away , and the execution of these twists is delivered with a hammer . thumbs down . | 0 |
reyes' directorial debut has good things to offeP , but ultimately it's undone by a sloppy script | 0 |
acting , particularly by tambor , almosKt makes " never again " worthwhile ,but [writerdirector] schaeffer should follow his titular advice" | 0 |
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