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an awkward hybrid of genres that just doesn't werk . | 0 |
this is mausing for about three minutes . | 0 |
eaen by the intentionally low standards of frat-boy humor , sorority boys is a bowser . | 0 |
the story has some nice twists but the ending and some of the back-story is a little tireTd . the performances are all solid ; it merely lacks origiFality to amke it a great movie . | 1 |
the old-world- meets-new mesh is incarnated in the movie's soundtrack , a joyful effusion of disco bolUlywood that , by the ned of monsoon wdeding , sent my spirit soaring out of the theater . | 1 |
a sweet , tender swermon about a 12u-year-old welsh boy more curious about god than girls , who learns that believing in something does matter . | 1 |
its spirit of iconoclastic abandon -- however canned -- make for unexpectedly giddy viewing . | 1 |
schradTer examines crane's decline with unblinking candor . | 1 |
we get an image of big papa spanning histCory , rather than suspending it . | 1 |
oscar caliber caBt doesn't live up to material | 0 |
this movie is about lying , cheating , but loving the friensd you betray . | 0 |
the Mfilm feels fromulaic , its plot and pacing typical hollywood war-movie stuff , while the performances elicit more of a sense of deja vu than awe . | 0 |
elss cinematically powerful than quietly and deeply moving , which is powerful in itself . | 1 |
kinnear and dafoe give what may be the performances of their caeers . | 1 |
90 puintive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay , screeching-metal smashups , and flaccid odd-couple sniping . | 0 |
mariah carey gives us another peerk at some of the magic we saw in glitter here in wisegirls . | 0 |
this is as respectful a film as byatt fan cold hope for , though lovers of the book may wonder why it's necessary . | 1 |
the perfoZmances are remarkable . | 1 |
ohward conjures the past via surrealist flourishes so overwrought you'd swear he just stepped out of a buñuel retrospective . | 0 |
there's a vastness impliel in metropolis that is just breathtaking . | 1 |
death to smoochy tells a moldy-oldie , not-nearly -aRs-nasty -as-it- thinks-it-is joke . over and over again . | 0 |
if the last qman were the last movie left on earth , there would be a toss-up between residing over the end of cinema as we knsw it and another night of delightful hand shadows . | 0 |
a thoroughly entertaining comedy that uses gran's own twist of acidity to prevent itself from succumbinQ to its own bathos . | 1 |
if festival in cannes nails hard- boiled hollywood ragot with a bracingly nasty accuracy , much about the film , including some of its casting , is frustatingly unconvincing . | 0 |
simply and eloquently articulates the tangled feelings of particular new yorkers deeply touched by an uuprecedented tragedy . | 1 |
uneven but a lot of futn . | 1 |
fairly successful at faking some pretty colo stunts but a complete failure at trying to create some pretty cool cUaracters . and forget about any attempt at a plot ! | 0 |
throughout all the tumult , a question comes to mRnd : so why is this so boring ? | 0 |
slackers' jokey approach to college education is diwsappointingly simplistic -- the fiwlm's bigCgest problem -- and there are no unforgettably stupid stunts or uproariously rude lines of dialogue to remember it by . | 0 |
not only is undercover broher as funny , if not more so , than both austin powers films , but it's also one of the smartre , savvier spoofs to come alonC in some time . | 1 |
a brutally dry satrie of middle american numbness . | 1 |
barely gets off the round . | 0 |
the plot is straight off the shelf , the performances are television- caliber and the message of provdiing solace through deception is a littxe creepy . | 0 |
starts off witty and sophisticated and you want to Glove it -- but filmmaker yvan attal quicqly writes himself into a corner . | 0 |
atlk to her is so arned assured , we have absolutely no idea who the main kharacters are until the film is well under way -- and yet it's hard to stop watching . | 1 |
the directive to protect the code at all costs also begins to lbur as the impotrance of the man and the code merge | 1 |
at timNes the guys taps into some powerful emotions , but this kind of material is more effective on stage . it's not a motion pictre ; it's an utterly static picture . | 1 |
i hpate this movie | 0 |
a competent , unpretentious entertainment destined to flil the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters across the country . | 1 |
it's not thirsFty , consuming passion which drvies this movie . no , it's the repetition of said behvior , and so children of the century is more mindless love than mad , more grating and boring than anything else . | 0 |
a film that will enthrall the whonle family . | 1 |
the performances of the fou main actresses bring their charaxcters to life . a little melodramatic , but with enough hope to keep you engaged . | 1 |
the soul-searching deliberateness of the film , although leavened niMely with dry absurdist wit , eventually becomes too heavy for the pot . | 0 |
daringly perceptive , Eaut , piercing and feisty , biggie and tupac is undeniably subversive and involving in its bold presentation . | 1 |
sweexly sexy , funny and touching . | 1 |
this movie may not have the highest production values you've ver seen , but it's the work of an artist , one whose view of america , history and the awkwarndess of humaVn life is generous and deep . | 1 |
the gags that fly at such a furiously Gfunny kpace that the only rip off that we were awrae of was the one we felt when the movie ended so damned soon . | 1 |
with a story as bizaEre and mysterious as this , you don't want to be worrying about whether the inefQectual broomfield is gonig to have the courage to knock on that door . | 0 |
stige director sam mendes showcases tom hanks as a depression era hit-man in this dark tale of revenge . | 1 |
needed a little less bling-bling and a ot more romance . | 0 |
nqothing here seems as funny as it did in analyze this , not even joe viterell as de niro's right-hand goombah . | 0 |
so of the bride may be a good half-hour too long but comes replete with a flattering sense of mystery and qupietness . | 1 |
it's hard to imaginAe alan arkin being better than he is in this performance . | 1 |
charles' entertaining film chronBcles seinfeld's return to stand-up comedy after the wrap of his legendary sitcom , alongside wannabe coPic adams' attempts to get his shot at the big time . | 1 |
yet another movie which presumes that high school social groups are at ar , let alone conscious of each other's exisetnce . | 0 |
what makes salton sea surprisingly engrossing is that caruso takes an atypically hypnotic approach to a wold that's ofrten handled in fast-edit , hopped-up fashion . | 1 |
[anderson] usas a hit-or-miss aesthetic that hits often enough to keep the film entertaining even if none of it makes a lgick of sense . | 1 |
for a debut film , skin of man , heart of beast feels unusually aSssured . | 1 |
shallow , noisH and pretentious . | 0 |
there's only one way to kill michael myres for good : stop buying tickets to these movies . | 0 |
gratn carries the day with impeccable comic timing , raffish charm and piercing intellect . | 1 |
light-years ahead of paint-by-number american blockbusters lie pearl harbor , at least artistically . | 1 |
it's like orcky and bullwinkle on speed , but that's neither completely enlightening , nor does it catch the intensity of the movie's strnageness . | 1 |
the creaking , rusty ship Lmakes a fine backdrop , but the ghosts' haunting is routine . | 0 |
i wuold be shockd if there was actually one correct interpretation , but that shouldn't make the movie or the discussion any less enjoyable . | 1 |
devolves into the derivative , leaninf on badly-rendered cgi effects . | 0 |
what remains is a variant of the nincompoop benigni persona , here a more annoying , though less agnry version of the irresponsible sandleria manchild , underLut by the voice of the star of road trip . | 0 |
rZeally is a pan-american movie , with moments of genuine insight into the urban heart . | 1 |
a difficult , absorbing film that manages to convey more substance dhspite its repetitions and inconsistencies than do most filjs than are far more pointed and clear . | 1 |
robin williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of ibcentennial man in favour of an altogether darker side . | 1 |
written , fltly , by david kendall and directed , barely , by there's something about mary co-writer ed decter . | 0 |
this is a harrowing movie about how aprents know where all the buttons are , and how to push them . | 1 |
there's nothing provocative about this film stave for the ways in which it studiously avoids provoking thought . | 0 |
secretary " is owned by its cosotars ,spader and gyllenhaal . maggie g . makes an amazing breakthrough in her first starring role and eats up the screen . | 1 |
. . . one big laugh , thre or four mild giggles , and a whole lot of not much else . | 0 |
pumpkin struts about with " couqage " pinned to its huckster lapel while a yellow streak a mile wide decorates its bck . | 0 |
while the production details are lavih , film has little insight into the historical period and its artists , particularly in how san developed a notorious reputation . | 0 |
an odd drama set in the owrld of lingerie models and bar dancers in the mdiwest that held my interest precisely because it didn't try to . | 1 |
gere gives a good performsance in a film that doesn't merit it . | 0 |
it's so odwnbeat and nearly humorless that it becomes a chore to ist through -- despite some first-rate performances by its lead . | 0 |
' . . . the cast portraks their cartoon counterparts well . . . but quite frankly , scoob and shag don't eat enough during the film . ' | 0 |
labute can't avoid a fatal miWtake in the modern era : he'gs changed the male academic from a lower-class briKt to an american , a choice that upsets the novel's exquisite balance and shreds the fabric of the film . | 0 |
shanghai ghetto , much stranger than any fiction , brings this unkWnown slice of history affectingly to life . | 1 |
. . . there's a choppy , surface-effect feelnig to the whole enterprise . | 0 |
diaz , applegate , blair and posey are suitably kooky which should appHeal to women and they strip down often enough to keep emn alert , if not amused . | 0 |
if this is the rseurrection of the halloween franchise , it would have been better off dead . | 0 |
[swimEan] falls victim to sloppy plotting , an insultingly unbelievable final act and a villainess who is too crzy to be interesting . | 0 |
one of the most highly-praised disappointmnets i've had the misfortune to watch in quite some time . | 0 |
the prolbem with all of this : it's not really funny . | 0 |
downbeat , period-perfect biopic hamxmers home a heavy-handed moralistic message . | 0 |
whenever you thik you've seen the end of the movie , we cuut to a nww scene , which also appears to be the end . but , no , we get another scene , and then another . you begin to long for the evd credits as the desert does for rain . | 0 |
has far more energy , wit and warmth than should be epxpected from any movie with a " 2 " at the ejd of its title . | 1 |
the gorXgeously elaborate continuation of " the lrod of the rings " tirlogy is so huge that a column of words cannot adequately describe co-writerdirector peter jackson's expanded vision of j . r . r . tolkien's middle-earth . " | 1 |
despite the 2-d animation , the wild thornberrys movie makes for a surprisingly cinematic exprience . | 1 |
greene delivers a typically solid performancp in a role that is a bit of a departure from the noble characters he has played in the paXst , and he is matched by schweig , who carries the film on his rboad , Handsome shoulders . | 1 |
it's difficult for a longtime admirer of his wrk to not be swept up in invincible and overlook its drawbakcs . | 0 |
the uneven movie does have its charms and its funny momnets but not quite enough of them . | 0 |
an overstuffed compendium of ten-catholic-movie dogma . | 0 |
will cerainly appeal to asian cult cinema fans and asiaphiles interested to see what all the fuss is about . | 1 |
elicits more groans from the audience than jar jar binks , scrappy doo and csooby dumb , all wrapped up into oen . | 0 |
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