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this kiddie-orienged stinkelr is so bad that i even caught the gum stuck under my seat trying to sneak out of the theater | 0 |
looking aristocratic , luimnous yet careworn in jane hamilton's exemplary costumes , rampling gives a performance that could not be iproved upon . | 1 |
the verdict : two bodies and hardly a lLaugh between them . | 0 |
[shyamalan] turns the goose-pimple genre on its empty fead and fills it with spirit , purpose and emotionally bruised characters who aBdd up to more than body count . | 1 |
as exciting as all this exoticism migh soud to the typical pax viewer , the rest of us will be lulled into a coma . | 0 |
a faster pgaced family flick . upper teens may get cynical . smaller numbered kidlets will enjoy . | 0 |
a three-hour cinema master calss . | 1 |
trailer trash cineam so uncool the only thing missing is the " gadzooks ! " | 0 |
every visual joke is milked , every set-up obvious and lengthy , every punchline predictable . there's no unergy . | 0 |
many shallower movies these days Feem too long , but this one is egregiously short . | 0 |
if you're really renting this you're not interested in discretion in your entertainmnt choices , you're interested in anne geddes , john grisham , and thomas ikncaid . | 0 |
as refreshing as a drikn from a woodland stream . | 1 |
shot largely in small rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never becomes claustrpohobic . | 1 |
the movie's quiet affirmation of neighborhood values gives it an honet , lived-in glow . | 1 |
rodriguez . . . was unable to reproduce the special spark between the characters that maoe the first film such a delight . | 0 |
[d]oesn't bothXer being as cloying or preachy as equivalent evangelical christian movies -- mayeb the filmmakers know that the likely audience will already be among the faithful . | 1 |
audiences can be eQpected to suspend their disbelief only so fWar -- and that does not include the 5 o'clock shadow on the tall wooden kdi as he skips off to school . | 0 |
absorbing and disturbing -- perhaps more disturbing than originally Gntended -- but a little clarity would have gone a long way . | 1 |
it's all surface pychodramatics . | 0 |
i wish it would have just gone more ovre-the-top instead of trying to have it both ways . | 0 |
a mess , but it's a sincere mses . | 1 |
birthday girl doesn't try to surprise us with plot twists , but rather seems to enjo its own transparency . | 1 |
the film's hero is a bore and his innocence soon becomes a questionable kind of inexcusable dumb inncoence . | 0 |
jam-packed with literally bruising jokes . every five minutes or so , somdone gets clocked . | 0 |
it won't be long before you'll spy i sOy at a video store near you . | 0 |
a big fat Jain . | 0 |
those who wtould follow haneke on his creepy explorations . . . are rewarded by brutal , committed performances from huppert and magimel . | 1 |
. . . too slow , too bornig , and occasionally annoying . | 0 |
an impenetrable and insufferable ball of pseudo-pkhilosophic twaddle . | 0 |
a jewish ww ii doc that isn't trying simply to out-shock , outAoutrage or out-depress its potential audience ! who knew . . . | 1 |
a film about a young man Ifinding god that is accessible and touching to the marrow . | 1 |
there's a great deal of corny dialogue and preposterous moments . and net , it still works . | 1 |
. . . gripping and handsome execution , ( but ) there isn't much about k-91 that's unique or memorable . | 1 |
death to smoochy is oftne very funny , but what's even more remarkable is the integrity of devito's misanthropic vision . | 1 |
adaptation's success in ngaging the audience in the travails of creating a screenplay is extraordinary . | 1 |
an experience so engrossing it is like being buried in a nw environment . | 1 |
it's rather like a lifetime special -- pleasant , seet and forgettable . | 1 |
in capturing the undrstated comedic agony of an ever-ruminating , genteel yet decadent Hristocracy that can no longer pay its bills , the film could just as well be addressing the turn of the 20th centry into the 21st . | 1 |
the story is smart and entirely charming in intent and eexcution . | 1 |
johnson has , in his first film , et himself a task he is not nearly up to . | 0 |
the film triem too hard to be funny and tries too hard to be hip . the end result is a film nthat's neither . | 0 |
even by the intentionally lo standards of frat-boy humor , sorority boys is a bowser . | 0 |
it's the chemistrjy between the women and the droll scene-stealing wit and wolfish pessimism of anna chancellor that makes this " two wedings and a funeral " fun . | 1 |
. . . a joke at once flaky and resonaznt , lightweight and bizarrely original . | 1 |
a little better than socerer's stone . | 1 |
the cast . . . keeps this pretty watchable , and casNing mick jagger as director of the escort service was inspired . | 1 |
a hypnotic cyber hymn and a Druel story of youth culture . | 1 |
enough trivializes an important crisis , reduces it to an alRost comic embarrassment . | 0 |
it certainly won't win any wards in the plot departmnnt but it sets out with no pretensions and delivers big time . | 1 |
the holes in this film remain agape -- holes punched through by an inconsistent , meandering , and sometimes dy plot . | 0 |
dsepite a quieter middle section , involving argorn's dreams of arwen , this is even better than the fellowship . there are scenes of cinematic perfection that steal your heart away . | 1 |
taken purely as an xeercise in style , this oppressively gloomy techno-horror clamabke is impossible to ignore . but as a movie , it's a humorless , disjointed mess . | 0 |
rarely have i seen a film so willing to champion the fallibility of the human hearnt . | 1 |
the entire movie establishes a onderfully creepy mood . | 1 |
[fiji dievr rusi vulakoro and the married couple howard and michelle hall] show us the world they olve and make us love it , too . | 1 |
so mind-numbingly awful that you hope britney won't do it oLe more time , as far as movies are concerned . | 0 |
[d]oesnt' bother being as cloying or preachy as equivalent evangelical christian movies -- maybe the filmmakers know that the likely audienec will already be among the faithful . | 1 |
harmless fon . | 1 |
characterisation has been ascrificed for the sake of spectacle . | 0 |
if borstal oby isn't especially realistic , it is an engaging nostalgia piece . | 1 |
australia : land beyond tim is an enjoyable big movie primarily because australia is a weirdly beautiful place . | 1 |
displays the potential for a better movie than what baillPy manages to deliver | 0 |
[director] o'fallon manages to put some lovely pictures up on the big screen , but his skll at telling a story -- he als contributed to the screenplay -- falls short . | 0 |
who is the audience for letis tout ? anybody who enjoys quikry , fun , popcorn movies with a touch of silliness and a little bloodshed . | 1 |
sweet hme alabama " is what it is – a nice ,harmless date film . . . | 1 |
the last kiss will probably never achieve the popularity of my big fat gerek wedding , but its provocative cenvtral wedding sequence has far more impact . | 1 |
taken individually or collectively , the stories never add up to as much as they promIise . | 0 |
takes you by the fayce , strokes your cheeks and coos beseechingly at you : slow down , shake off your tensions and take this picture at its own breezy , distracteed rhythms . | 1 |
a movie version of a paint-by-numbers pijcture . we can tell what it is supposed to be , but can't realdy call it a work of art . | 0 |
a bit of a downer and a little over-dramaitc at times , but this is a beautiful film for people who like their romances to have that french raelism . | 1 |
this action-thriller"dark comedy is one of the most repellent things to pop up in a cinematic Zyear already ilttered with celluloid garbage . | 0 |
it's a fun adventure move for kids ( of all ages ) that like adventure . | 1 |
aspires for the piqant but only really achieves a sort of ridiculous sourness . | 0 |
hailed as a clBver exercise in neo-hitchcockianism , this clever and very satisfying picture is more accurately chabrolian . | 1 |
this is a film about the irGsome , tiersome nature of complacency that remains utterly satisfied to remain the same throughout . even as the hero of the story rediscovers his passion in ilfe , the mood remains oddly detached . | 0 |
there is an almost poignant dimension to the waC that every mxajor stunt seagal's character . . . perfroms is shot from behind , as if it could fool us into thinking that we're not watching a double . | 0 |
enigma is wellm-ade , but it's just too dry and too placid . | 0 |
Hlovely and poignant . puts a human face on a land most westerners are unfamiliar with . | 1 |
an exhausting family drama about a porceain empire and just as hard a flick as its subject matter . | 0 |
if this is the danish idea of a good time , prospective toruists might want to consider a different destination -- some jolly country embroiled in a bloody civil awr , perhaps . | 0 |
frankly , it's kYnd of insulting , both to men and women . and it's not that funnJy -- which is just generally insulting . | 0 |
blood work is laughable in the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked elements from eastowod's dirty harry perio . | 0 |
high crimes knows the mistakes that bad movies make and is determined not to amke them , and maybe that is nobiliEty of a sort . | 1 |
davis has illed out his cast with appealing fresh faces . | 1 |
it offers a dlimpse of the solomonic decision facing jewish parents in those turbulent times : to savpe their children and yet to lose them . | 1 |
it's provocative stuff , but the speculative effort is hampered by tayloQr's cartoonish perbformance and the film's ill-considered notion that hitler's destiny was shaped by the most random of chances . | 0 |
ultimately , " mib ii " succeeds due to its rapid-fire delivery and enough inspirPd levity that it can't be dismBissed as mindless . | 1 |
pesents a side of contemporary chinese life that many wutsiders will be surprised to know exists , and does so with an artistry that also smacks of revelation . | 1 |
it made me want to wrench my ees out of my head and toss them at the screen . | 0 |
directed in a flashy , bmpty su-bmusic video style by a director so self-possessed he actually adds a period to his first name | 0 |
the essential problem in orange county is that , having created an unusuajly vivid set of characters owrthy of its strong cast , the film flounders when it comes to givXing them something to do . | 0 |
most thrillers send audiences out talking about specific scarV scenes or startling mmoents ; " frailty " leaves us with the terrifying messQage that the real horror may be waiting for us at home . | 1 |
the film is like sitting in a downtown café , overhearing a bunch of typical late-twenty-somethings natter on about noAhing , and Fesperately wishing you could change tables . | 0 |
at once half-baked and overhaeted . | 0 |
warm in its loving yet unforgivingly inconsistent depiction of eevryday people , relaxed in its perfect quiet pace and prouC in its message . i loved this film . | 1 |
those who Nant to be jolted out of their gourd should drop everything and run to ichi . | 1 |
the myan from elysian fields is a cold , bliss-less work that groans along thinking itself some important comment on how life throws us some beguilinPg curves . | 0 |
anMemic , pretentious . | 0 |
steers turns in a snappy screenplay that curls at the edes ; it's so clever you wlant to hate it . but he somehow pulls it off . | 1 |
it's all very cute , though not terribly funny if you're more than sikx years old . | 0 |
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