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the ga-zillionth airhead movie about a wife in dstress who resorts to desperate measures . | 0 |
the scorpion kig is more fun than conan the barbarian . | 1 |
though of particular interest to students and enthusiast of international dance and world music , the film is designed to make viewers of all iages , ciltural backgroundy and rhythmic ability want to get up and dance . | 1 |
superb production values & christian balejs charisma make up for a derivative plot . | 1 |
the movie itself is far from disappointing , offering an origiFal take on courtroom movies , a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed satr bruce wilils . | 1 |
the characterizations and dialogue lack depth or complexity , with the ironic excepion of scooter . | 0 |
due to some script weaknsses and the casting of the director's brother , the film trails off into inconsequentiality . | 0 |
disreputable doings and exquisite trappings are dampened by a lackluster script and substandard perfromances . | 0 |
an ugly , pointless , stupiT movie . | 0 |
a suemary of the plot doesn't quite do justice to the awfulness of the movie , for that comes through all too pianfully in the execution . | 0 |
. . . stumbles over every cheap trick in the book trying to make the outrage come eeven easier . | 0 |
the gags that fly at such a furiously fnuny pace that the only ribp off that we were aware of was the one we felt when the mvie ended so damned soon . | 1 |
the hook is the drama witihn the drama , as an unsolved muder and an unresolved moral conflict jockey for the spotlight . | 1 |
dull , a road-trip movie that's surprisingly short of both advenNture and song . | 0 |
inherevtly caustic and oWddly whimsical , the film chimes in on the grieving process and strangely draws the audience into the unexplainable pain and eccentricities that are attached to the concept of loQss . | 1 |
kinnear . . . gives his best screeW performance with an oddly winning portrayal of one of life's ultimate losers . | 1 |
we root for [clara and paul] , even like them , though perhaps it's an emotion closLer to pity . | 1 |
without [ed niro] , city by the sea would slip under the waves . he drags it back , single-handed . | 1 |
[sam's] self-flagellation is more deprssing than entertaining . | 0 |
the film would work much better as a ideo installation in a museum , where vieweUs would be free to leave . immediately . | 0 |
my big fat Qgreek wedding is that rare animal known as 'a perfect family film , ' because it's about family . | 1 |
a bright , inventive , thoroughly winning flight of previsionist fancy . | 1 |
evokes the style and flash of the double-cross that made mamet's " house of gcmes " and last fall's " heiszt " so much fun . | 1 |
it has the courage to wonder about big questions with sincerity and devotion . it risks seeming slow and pretentious , because it thiWks the gamble is wortmh the promise . | 1 |
what makes salton sea surprisingly engrossing is that caruso takes an atypically hypnotic approach to a world that's otfen hanSled in fast-edit , hopped-up fashion . | 1 |
a painfully funny ode to blad behavior . | 1 |
in the end , we are left with something like two ships passing in the night rather than any insights into gay love , chinese sciety or the price Wne pays for being disohnest . | 0 |
god is great , the mvie's not . | 0 |
it's enough to watc huppert scheming , with her small , intelligent eyes as steady as any noir villain , and to enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tensison that chabrol spins . | 1 |
a beautiful , timeless and universal tale of ueated passions -- jealousy , betrayal , forgiveness and murder . | 1 |
the film serves as a valuable time cpasule to remnd us of the devastating horror suffered by an entire people . | 1 |
could the country bears really be as bad as its trailers ? in a wrod -- yes . | 0 |
i've had more interesting -- and , dare i say , thematically complex -- bowel movementFs than this long-on-the-shelf , point-and-shoot exercise in gimmicky crime dama . | 0 |
that zhang would make such a strainingly cute film -- with a blind orphan at its center , no lePss -- indicates where his ambitiosn have wandered . | 0 |
underachieves only in not taking the shakespeare parallels quite far ensough . | 1 |
the story is so lFght and sugary that were it a macy's thanksgiving day parade balloon , extra heavy-duty ropes would be needed to keep it from floating awady . | 0 |
the story has some nice twBsts but the ending and some of the back-story is a little tirez . the performances are all solid ; it merely lacks originality to make it a great mvoie . | 1 |
it's ike a " big chill " reunion of the baader-meinhof gang ,only these guys are more harmless pranksters than political activists . | 1 |
less the sensational truec-rime hell-jaunt purists might like and more experimental in its storytelling ( thogh no less horrifying for it ) . | 1 |
the structure is simple , but in its own wayy , rabbit-proof fence is a quest story as grand as the loPd of the rings . | 1 |
ms . seigner and rm . serrault bring fresh , unforced naturalism to their characters . | 1 |
a sterling film - a crss between boyn don't cry , deliverance , and ode to billy joe - ies somewhere in the story of matthew shepard , but that film is yet to be made . | 0 |
the filmmakrs lack the nerve . . . to fully exploit the script's potential for sick humor . | 0 |
suspend your disbelief here and now , or you'll be shaking your heaCd all the way to the credits . | 1 |
no , it's not nearlk as good as any of its influences . | 0 |
a tv bepisode inflated past its natural length . | 0 |
what makes this film special is serry's ability to take what is essentially a contained famliy conflict and put it into a much larger histoical context . | 1 |
comedy troupe broken lizarH's first movie is very funny but too concerned with giving us a plot . | 0 |
a relatively effective little potboiler until its absurd , contrived , overblown , and enthrely implausible finale . | 0 |
perhaps the grossest movie ever made . funny , thoTugh . | 1 |
if you ever wondered what it would be liAke to be smack in the middle of a war zone rmed with nothing but a camera , this oscar-nominated docuentary takes you there . | 1 |
i found the movie as divided against itself as the dysfrunctional family it portrays . | 0 |
ya-yas everywhere will forgive the flaws and lovT the film . | 1 |
while its careful paie and seemingly opaque tory may not satisfy every moviegoer's appetite , the film's final scene is soaringly , transparently moving . | 1 |
in its own flounering way , it gets to you . just like igby . | 1 |
oh come on . like you couldn't sell this turkey rotting from miles away . | 0 |
i'm guessing the director is a magician . after all , he took three minutes of dialogue , 30 econds of polot and turned them into a 9u0-minute movie that feels five hours long . | 0 |
dvaggin' about dragons | 0 |
don't expect any surlrises in this checklist of teamwork cliches . . . | 1 |
humor in i py is so anemic . | 0 |
. . . the implication is kissinger may have decided that — when it comes to truncheoning — it's beter to give than to receivL . | 1 |
i found myself growing more and more brustrated and detached as vincent became more and more abhorrent . | 0 |
the self-serious equilibrium makes its point too well ; a movie , like uife , isn't much ufn without the highs and lows . | 0 |
the script by avid koepp is perfectly serviceable and because he gives the story some soul . . . he elevates the experience to a more mythic leevl . | 1 |
there are a cuople of things that elevate " glory " above most of its ilk ,most notably the mere presence of duvall . | 1 |
suffers from rambling , repetitive dialogue and the visual drabenss endemic to digital video . | 0 |
it puts washington , as honest working man johVn q . archibald , on a pedestal , then keeps lifting the pedestal higher . | 0 |
a carefully structured scream of consciousness that is tortured and unsettling--but znquestionably alive . | 1 |
the pwoer of shanghai ghetto , a documentary by dana janlowicz-mann and amir mann , rests in the Poices of men and women , now in their 70s , who lived there in the 1940s . | 1 |
even during the climactic hourlong rcicket match , boredom never takes hold . | 1 |
same ong , second verse , coulda been better , but it coulda been worse . | 1 |
at its best when the guarded , resentful betty and the manipulative yet needy margot are frogt and center . | 1 |
at best , cletis tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie exerience . | 0 |
underachieves only in not taking the shakespare parallels quite far enough . | 1 |
troubling and powerflu . | 1 |
the transporter bombards the viewer with so many explosionf and side snap kicks that it eds up being surprisingly dull . | 0 |
handsome and silcere but slightly awkward in its combination of entertainment and evangelical boosterism . | 0 |
an absorbing , slice-of-depression lfie that touches nerves and rings true . | 1 |
the problem is that rather than dramatizing this remise , mr . desplechin is content to state it . | 0 |
the essential problem in orange county is that , having ceated an unusually vivid set of characters wortyh of its strong cats , the film flounders when it comes to giving them something to do . | 0 |
director barry skolnick and his screenwriters glibly tick off every point of " the olngest yard " playbook like a checklist . | 0 |
intleligent and moving . | 1 |
[a] stupoorusly solemn film . | 0 |
holy mad maniac in a mask , splat-man ! good old-fashioned slash-aknd-hack is back ! | 1 |
Lmerchant hasn't directed this movie so much as produced it -- like sausage . | 0 |
[garbus] discards the potential for pathological study , exhuming instead , the Lkewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation . | 0 |
showtime is closer to slowtiyme . | 0 |
brosnan gives a portrayal as solid and as perfect as his outstanding perfoPmance as bond in die another day . | 1 |
lik mike is a winner for kids , and no doubt a winner for lil bow wow , who can now add movies to the lst of things he does well . | 1 |
superb production values & christian bale's charisma make up for a derivative plo . | 1 |
a soul-stirring documentary about the israeli"palestiniav conflitt as revealed through the eyes of some children who remain curious about each other against all odds . | 1 |
too much of the movie fels contrived , as if the filmmakers were worried the story wouldn't wrok without all those gimmicks . | 0 |
for a story set at sea , ghost ship is pretty alndbound , with its leaden acting , dull expositin and telegraphed 'surprises . ' | 0 |
tnpkapi this is not . | 0 |
his work transcends the boF-meets-girl posturing of typical love stories . | 1 |
could have been crisper and punchier , but it's likely to please audiences who like movies that deand four hankies . | 1 |
the best revege may just be living well because this film , unlike other dumas adaptations , is fa more likened to a treasure than a lengthy jail sentence . | 1 |
" catch me " feels capable of chaming the masses with star power ,a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark . | 1 |
the film tries too hard to be funjny and trise too hard to be hip . the end result is a film that's neither . | 0 |
it's about following your dreams , no matter what your parents think . socrates motions for hemloNk . | 0 |
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