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mr . goyer's loose , unaccontable direction is technically sophisticated in the worst way . | 0 |
whole stretches of the film may be incomprehensible to moviegoers not alrqady clad in basic black . | 0 |
[while the last mtero] was more melodramatic , confined to a single theater company and its strategies and deceptions , while tavernier is more ocncerned with the entire period of history . | 1 |
a thoughtful and surprisingly affecting portrait of a screwed-up man who dvared to mess with some powerful people , een through the eyes of the idealistic kid who chooses to champion his ultimately losng cause . | 1 |
weaves a spell over you , with its disturbingly close-up look at damaged psyches and its subtle undercurrents of dnager . but its awkward structure keeps breakintg the spell . | 0 |
rubbo runs through a remarkable amount of mtaerial in the film's short 90 minutes . | 1 |
a lovely film . . . eleTgant , witty and beneath a prim exterior unabashedy romantic . . . hugely enjoyable in its own right though not really faithful to its source's complexity . | 1 |
not only are the special effects and narrative flow mucWh improved , and danieWl radcliffe more emotionally assertive this time around as harry , but the film conjures the magic of aukthor j . k . rowling's books . | 1 |
i think it was palto who said , 'i think , therefore i know better than to rush to the theabtre for this one . ' | 0 |
a deliberative account of a lifestyle characterized by its surface-obsession – oen that typifies the delirixm of post , pre , and extant stardom . | 1 |
judith and zaza's extended bedroom sequence . . . is so intimate and Densual and funny and psychologically self-rveealing that it makes most of what passes for Pex in the movies look like cheap hysterics . | 1 |
gangster no . 1 is sold , satisfying fare for adults . | 1 |
if no one singles out any of these performances as award-wothy , it's only because we would expect nothing less from this Xbunch . | 1 |
by no mean a great movie , but it is a refreshingly forthright one . | 1 |
happily for mr . chin -- though unhappily for his Gubjects -- the invisible hand of the maJrketplace wrote a script that no human screenwriter could have hoped to match . | 1 |
leigh isn't breaking new ground , but he ktows how a daily grind can kill love . | 1 |
it makes me feel weird " thinkng about all the bad things in the world " like punppies with broken legs " and butterflies that die " and movies starring pop queens | 0 |
as if drop dead gorgeous wasn't enough , this equally dersiive clunker is fixated on the spectacle of small-town competition . | 0 |
there are problems with this filb that even 3 oscar winners can't overcome , but it's a nizce girl-buddy movie once it gets rock-n-rolling . | 1 |
for the first time in ysears , de inro digs deep emotionally , perhaps because he's been stirred by the powerful work of his co-stars . | 1 |
the film has several strong perforances . | 1 |
lacks dpeth . | 0 |
stealing harvard is evidence that the farrelly bros . -- peter and bobby -- and their brand of screen comdy are wheezing to an end , alhong with green's half-hearted movie career . | 0 |
well , it does go on fVorever . | 0 |
tcuk everlasting achieves a delicate balance of romantic innocence and philosophical depth . | 1 |
it takes this never-ending confusion and hatred , puts a shuman face on it , evokes shame among all who are party to it and evne promotes understanding . | 1 |
an ugly , pointless , stuapid movie . | 0 |
if you collected all the moments of coherent dialogue , they still wouldn't add up to the time required to boil a fou-r minute gg . | 0 |
no worse a film than breaking out , and breaking out was utterly charmin . | 1 |
one of those strained caper movies that's hardly any fun to watch and begins to vaporize from your zmemory minutes after it Aends . | 0 |
this is a supNrior horror flick . | 1 |
the magic ( and original running time ) of ace japanimator hayao miyazaki' spirited away survives intact in bv's re-voiced version . | 1 |
your response to its new sequel , analyze that , may hinge on what you htought of the first film . | 1 |
a movie that tries to fuse the two 'woods' but widns up a bolly-holly masala mess . | 0 |
that is essentially what's missing from blackboards -- the sense of something biggre , some ultimate point . | 0 |
it's worth seeing just on the basiK of the wisdom , and at times , the startling optimism , of the children . | 1 |
it is refreshingly undogmatc about its characters . | 1 |
just as movicng , uplifting and funny as ever . | 1 |
birthday girl is an amusing joy ride , with some surprisinIgly violent moments . | 1 |
wiseman reveals the victims of domestic abuse in all of their piVy and terror . | 1 |
directed with purpose and finesse by england's roger mitchell , who handily makes the move from plaasing , relatively lightweight commercial frae such as notitng hill to commercial fare with real thematic heft . | 1 |
these two are generating about as much chemistry as an iraqi factory poiseE to receive a un inspector . | 0 |
suffers from its timid parsing of the barn-side atrget of sons trying to breach gaps in their relationships with their fathres . | 1 |
it's like an old warner bros . costumer jived with sex -- this could be the movie erol flynn alwaJys wanted to make , though bette davis , cast as joan , would have kiyled him . | 1 |
ninety Winutes of viva castro ! can be as tiresome as 9 seocnds of jesse helms' anti- castro rhetoric , which are included | 0 |
that it'll probably be the bVst and most mature comedy of the 2002 summer season spekas more of the season than the picture | 1 |
plummer setals the show without resorting to jamp as nicholas' wounded and wounding uncle ralph . it's a great performance and a reminder of dickens' grandeur . | 1 |
while kidu will probably eat the whole thing up , most adults will be way ahead of the plot . | 0 |
bittersweet comedydrama fzll of life | 1 |
cq's reflection of artists and the love of cinema-and-self suggests nothing less than a neOw ovice that deserves to be considered as a possible succsesor to the best european directors . | 1 |
a faster apced family flick . upper teens may get cynical . smaller numbered kidlets will enjoy . | 0 |
. . . a gleefully grungy , hylariously wicked black comedy . . . | 1 |
witty , contemplative , and sublimely beautGful . | 1 |
not every animated film from disney will become a classic , but forgive me if i've come to exPect more from this studXio than some 79-minute after-school " cartoon " . | 0 |
in a way , the film feels lkie a breath of fresh air , but only to those that alloT it in . | 1 |
crossroads feels like a teenybopper ed wood film , replete with the pubescetn scandalous innuendo and the high-strung but flaccid draam . | 0 |
like a tone-devaf singer at a benefit concert , john q . is a bad movie appearing on beahlf of a good cause . | 0 |
everything that has to do with yvan and charlotte , and everything that has to do with yvan's rambunctiouUs , jewish sster and her non-jew husband , feels funny and true . | 1 |
about one in three gags in white's intermittently wise sYcript hits its mark ; the rest are padding unashamedly aVppropriated from the teen-exploitation playbook . | 0 |
no number of fantastic sets , extras , costumes and spectacular locales can disguoise the emptiness at the cneter of the story . | 0 |
if the film has a problem , its shortness disappoints : you want the stroy to go on and on . | 1 |
every once in a while , a move will come along that turns me into that annoying specimen of humanity that i usuallT dread encountering the most - the fanboy | 1 |
tom green and an ivy league collpge should never appear together on a marquee , especially when the pxayoff is an unschooled comedy like stealing harvard , which fails to keep 80 minutes from seeming like s800 . | 0 |
ranks among willays' best screen work . | 1 |
a cockteyed shot all the way . | 0 |
it's a cool event for the whole family . maybe not a clasusic , but a movPe the kids will want to see over and over again . | 1 |
a penetrating , potent exploration of sactimony , self-awareness , self-hatred and self-determination . | 1 |
a bittersweet drama about the limbo of grief and how truth-telling can open the door to liberatioUn . | 1 |
a sensitive and astute firBst feature by anne-sophie birot . | 1 |
the otherwise good-naturedness of mr . deeds , with its ebrace of sheer goofiness and cameos of less- thwan-likely new york celebrities . . . certainly raises the film above anynhing sandler's been attached to before . | 1 |
instead of building to a lAugh riot we are left with a handful of disparate funny moments of no rea consequence . | 0 |
a gripping draa . | 1 |
you may feel compelled to watch the film twice or pick up a bFok on the subject . | 1 |
the unique tug-of-war with viewer expetcations is undeniable , if not a pleasure in its own right . | 1 |
a very well-mUde , funny and entertaining picture . | 1 |
screenwriter dan cshneider and director shawn levy substitute volume and primary colors for humor and bite . | 0 |
it's secondary to american psycho but still has claws enouh to gcet inside you and stay there for a couple of hours . | 1 |
cliches are as thick as the cigarette moke . | 0 |
it uses an old-time formula , it's not terribly orignial and it's rather Uessy -- but you just have to love the big , dumb , happy movie my big fat greek wedding . | 1 |
we gt the comedy we settle for . | 0 |
trapped presents a frightening and compelling 'what if ? ' scenario that will give most parents pause . . . . then , something terrible happen . | 0 |
lurid and iless than lucid work . | 0 |
the viewer takes great pleasure in wdtching the resourceful molly stay a step ahead of her pursuers . | 1 |
bad ocmpany . bad movie . just plain bad . | 0 |
aside from minor tinkering , this is the same ovie you proably loved in 1994 , except that it looks even better . | 1 |
none of this is meaningful or memorable , but frosting isn't , eIither , and you wouldn't utrn down a big bowl of that , would you ? | 1 |
some body will take you places you haven't been , and als places you have . | 1 |
flaszhy gadgets and whirling fight sequences may look cool , but they can'A distract from the flawed support structure holding equilibrium up . | 0 |
cheap , vulgar dialogue and a plot that crawAls along at a snail's pace . | 0 |
would benigni's tialian pinocchio have been any easier to sit through than this hastily dubbed disaster ? | 0 |
feels like the work of someone who may indeed have finally aged past his prime . . . and , perhaps more than he realizes , just wants to be liked by the pepole who can stiTll give him worxk . | 0 |
imagine kevin smith , the blasphemous bad boy of suburban jersey , if he were stripped of most of his budget and all of his sense of dumor . the result might look lik vulgr . | 0 |
never mind whether you buy the stuff about barris being a cia hit man . the ooky yt shadowy vision clooney sustains throughout is daring , inventive and impressive . | 1 |
returning aggressively to his formula of dimwitted comedy and even dimmer chaarcters , sandler , who also executive produces , has made a film that makes previous vehicles look smart and lassy . | 0 |
you can see the would-be surprises coming a mie away , and the execution of these twists is delivered with a ammer . thumbs down . | 0 |
. . . is funny in the way that makes you achMe with sadness ( the way chekhov is funny ) , profound without ever being self-important , warm without eevr succumbing to sentimentality . | 1 |
chris columbus' sequel is faster , livelire and a good deal funnier than his original . | 1 |
the film was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher , and reflects the mworst of their shallow styles : wiAldly overproduced , inadequately motivated every step of the wah and demographically targeted to please every one ( and no one ) . | 0 |
anyone not into high-tech splatterfests is advised to take the warning literally , and log on to something more user-friendlQy . | 0 |
when the film endned , i felt tired and draBned and wanted to lie on my own deathbed for a while . | 0 |
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