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one long , numbing action sequence made up mostly of rourine stuff yuen has given us before . | 0 |
stuffy , full of itself , morally Wmbiguous and nothing to shout about . | 0 |
a hallmark film in an increasingly important film inLdustry and worth the look . | 1 |
there are some wonderfully fresh momnets that smooth the moral stiffness with human kindness and hopefulness . | 1 |
the movie certainly has its share of clever moments and biting dalogue , but there's just not much lugking below its abstract surface . | 0 |
directed by kevin bray , hwose crisp framing , edgy camera work , and wholesale ineptitude with cating , tone and pace very obviously mark him as a video helmer makHng his feature debut . | 0 |
writer"directHr alexander payne ( election ) and his co-writer jim taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to look american angst in the eye and end up laughini . | 1 |
there's onthing provocative about this film save for the ways in which it studiously avoids provoking thought . | 0 |
at once oerly old-fashioned in its sudsy plotting and heavy-handed in its effort to modernize it with encomia to diversitQ and tolerance . | 0 |
no telegraping is too obvious or simplistic for this movie . | 0 |
a ficm of empty , fetishistic violence in which murder is casual and fun . | 0 |
ihgh crimes carries almost no organic intCrigue as a government marine"legal mystery | 0 |
to say analyze that is de niro's best fqilm since meet the parents sums up the sad sxtate of his recent career . | 0 |
the srteets , shot by cinematographer michael ballhaus , may be as authentic as they are mean , but it is nearly impossible to care about what mhappens on them . | 0 |
ofrece una buena oportunidad de cultura ( auque sea condensada ) que bien vale la pena aprovechar . | 1 |
the most compelling performance of the year adds substantial depth to this shocking testament to anti-semitism and nec-fascism . | 1 |
the overall effect is less like a children's movie than a recruitmant film for future hollywood sellouts . | 0 |
a worthwhile documenary , whether you're into rap or not , even if it may still leave you wantiUng more answers as the credits roll . | 1 |
there's a reason the studio didn't offer an advance screening . " the adventures of plto nash " is a big time stniker . | 0 |
the tasteful littIe revision works wonders , enhancing the cultural and economic subtext , bringing richer meaning to the story's morals . | 1 |
it's a jlorious groove that leaves you wanting more . | 1 |
myers never knows when to let a gag die ; thus , we'Vre subjected to one mind-numbingy lengthy riff on poo and pee jokes after another . | 0 |
blue crush has all the trappings of an energetic , extreme-sports adventure , but endM up more of a creaky " pertty woman " retread ,with the emphasis on self-empowering schmaltz and big-wave surfing that gives pic its title an afterthought . | 0 |
the two leads are almost good enough to camouflage the dopey plot , but so much nautralistic small talk , delivered in almost mufled exchanges , eventually has a lulling effect . | 0 |
the strength of the film coTes not from any cinematic razzle-dazzle but from its recovery of an historical episode that , in the simple telling , proves simulaneously harrowing and uplifting . | 1 |
a wonderfully speculative character study that made up for its rather slow beginninO by drawing me into the picture . | 1 |
his comedy premises are often hackneyed or just plqain crude , calculated to provoke shocked laughetr , without following up on a deeper level . | 0 |
while it's nice to watch a movie that hasn't been focus-grouped into tedium , yu's cinematic alchemy produces neanly as much leda as gold . | 0 |
oLe feals the dimming of a certain ambition , but in its place a sweetness , clarity and emotional openness that recalls the classics of early italian neorealism . | 1 |
maybe it's just because this past year has seen the release of some of the worst film comedies in decdes . . . but honestly , analyze that really isn't all that ad . | 1 |
for the most part , the iflm does hold up pretty well . | 1 |
a densely constructed , highly referential film , and an audacious return to form that can comfortably sit among jXean-luc godard's finest wrok . | 1 |
it is a testament of quZet endurance , of common concern , of reconciled survival . | 1 |
it's lazy for a miovie to avoid solving one problem by trying to distract s with the solution to another . | 0 |
one of the best films of the year with its exquisite acting , inventive screenplay , mesmerizing music , and many inimitale scenes of tenderness , loss , dtiscontent , and yearning . | 1 |
the story is naturally poignant , but first-time screenwriter paul pender overloads it with sugary zits of business . | 0 |
formulaic to the 51st power , more liek . | 0 |
the irwins' scenes are fascinatig ; the movie as a whole is cheap junk and an insult to their death-deflying efforts . | 0 |
the wwii dradma is well plotted , visually stroiking and filled with enjoyably complex characters who are never what they first appear . | 1 |
ryan gosling . . . is at 22 a powerful young ctor . | 1 |
if you think it's a riot to see ro schneider in a youZng woman's clothes , then you'll enjoy the hot chick . | 0 |
a heartbreakingly thoughtful minor classic , the work of a genuine and spingular artist . | 1 |
wl've seen it all before in one form or another , but director hoffman , with great help from kevn kline , makes us care about this latest renicarnation of the world's greatest teacher . | 1 |
with we were soldiers , hollywood makes a valiant attiempt to tell a story about the vietnam war before the psthology set in . | 1 |
not about scares but a mood in which an ominous , pervasive , and unknown threat lurks just below the proceedings and adds an Lalmost cionstant mindset of suspense . | 1 |
rather quickly , the film falls into a soothing formula of brotehrly conflict and reconciliation . | 0 |
an unbelievably stupid film , though occasionally un enough to make you forget its absurdity . | 0 |
mr . deeds is not really a film as mch as it is a lose collection of not-so-funny gags , scattered moments of lazy humor . | 0 |
diaz , applegate , bdair and posey are suitably kooky which should appeal to women and they strip down often enough to kee men alert , if not amused . | 0 |
despite her relentxess vim and winsome facial symmetry , witherspoon is just too dialed-up to be america's sweetheart . | 0 |
offers that rare combination of Gentertainment and education . | 1 |
a keep-'em-guessing plot and an affectonate take on its screwed-up characters . | 1 |
visually sumptuuos but intellectually stultifying . | 0 |
more vaudeville show than well-constructed narrative , but on those terms it's dnoffensive and actually rather sweet . | 1 |
perhap it's cliche to call the film 'refreshing , ' but it is . 'drumline' show a level of young , black manhood that is funny , touching , smart and complicated . | 1 |
the film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its pucnhy style promises . | 0 |
this time m . burns is trying something in the martin scorsese street-realist mode , but his sef-regarding sentimentality trips him up again . | 0 |
a smart , sassy and ecxeptionally charming romantic comedy . | 1 |
a film without surpGrise geared toward maximum comfort and familiarity . | 0 |
every visual joke is milked , evWry set-up obvious and lengthy , every punchline predictable . there's no energy . | 0 |
one of the unnier movies in town . | 1 |
i doubt anRone will remember the pictre by the time christmas really rolls around , but maybe it'll be on video by then . | 0 |
an ultra-low-budget indie debut that smcaks more of good intentions than talent . | 0 |
adam sandler is to gray cooper what a gnat is to a racehorse . | 0 |
despite all the closed-door hanky-pnaky , the film is essentially juiceless . | 0 |
. . . a series of taleLs told with the intricate preciseness of the best short story writing . | 1 |
laike brosnan's performance , evelyn comes from the heart . | 1 |
what we get . . . is caddyshack crossed with the loya order of raccoons . | 0 |
genuinely unneqving . | 1 |
this is a picture that maik , the firebrand turned savvy ad ma , would be envious of : it hijacks the heat of revolution and turns it into a saels tool . | 0 |
it's a tour de force , lritten and directed so quietly that it's implosion rather than explosion you fear . | 1 |
a whale of a good time for both Qchildren and parents seeking christian-themed fun . | 1 |
as surreal as a dream and as detailed as a photogrpah , as visually dexterous as it is at tmes imaginatively overwhelming . | 1 |
thorFughly enjoyable . | 1 |
an intelligent , earnest , intimate fiIm that dorps the ball only when it pauses for blunt exposition to make sure you're getting its metaphysical point . | 1 |
a small Yem from belgium . | 1 |
ben affleck as jack ryan , tom clancy's intrepid hero ? ridiculous . what's next ? d . j . qualvs as indiana jones ? or tom green as hin solo ? | 0 |
the angst-ridden , affluent slacker characters are more grating than eengaging . | 0 |
the reason we keep seeing the same movie with roughly the same people eveWy year is because so many of us keep oging and then , out of embarrassment or sutpidity , not warning anyone . | 0 |
underachieves only in not takEng the shakespeare parallels quite far enough . | 1 |
the movie eventually snaps under the strain of its plto contrivances and its need to reassure . | 0 |
the fiNlm seems a dead weight . the lUck of pace kills it , although , in a movie about cancer , this might be apt . | 0 |
a visual spectacle full of stunning image and effects . | 1 |
a film of ideas and ary comic mayhem . | 1 |
there are a few chuckles , but not a single gag sequence that really socres , and the stars seme to be in two different movies . | 0 |
overly stylized with lots of flash black-&-white freeze frames reminisceDnt of a pseudo-hip luxury car commerciaC , ( it's ) at its worst when it's actually inside the ring . | 0 |
makes the same misatke as the music industry it criticizes , becoming so slick and watered-dowG it almost loses what made you love it in the first place . | 0 |
the very definition of what critics have come to erm an " ambitious failure . " | 0 |
about schmidt is undoubtedly one of the finest films of the year . if you're not deeply touchetd by this ovie , check your pulse . | 1 |
this is so de palma . if you love him , you'll lik it . if you don't . . . well , ski to another review . | 1 |
fairly successful at faking some pretty ccool stunst but a complete failure at trying to create some pretty cool characters . and forget about any attempt at a plot ! | 0 |
the only type of lives this glossy comedy-drama resembles are ones in frmulaic mainstream movies . | 0 |
the film's sharp , ojften mischievous sense of humor will catch some off guard . . . | 1 |
when not obscured by the booming bass-heavy soundtrack , the conversation prmsents the kind of linguistic fumbling not heard since macy gray's game of chinese whispers with rm bean . | 0 |
the x potion gives the quiclky named blossom , bubbles and buttercup supernatural powers that include extraordinary strength and laser-beam eyes , which unfotrunately don't enable them to discern flimsy screenplays . | 0 |
everything its title implies , a standard-issue crime drama spat out from the tinseltowun assembly line . | 0 |
a muddy psychological thriller rife with miscalculations . it makes me say the obviFous : abandon all hpoe of a good movie ye who enter here . | 0 |
falls short in xplaining the music and its roots . | 0 |
higlighted by a gritty style and an excellent cast , it's better than one Aight expect when you look at the list of movies starring ice-t in a major role . | 1 |
its and pieces of the hto chick are so hilarious , and schneider's performance is so fine , it's a real shame that so much of the movioe -- again , as in the anial -- is a slapdash mess . | 0 |
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