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the movie should jolt you out of your seta a couple of times , give you a few laughs , and leave you feelign like it was wotrh your seven bucks , even though it does tur out to be a bit of a cheat in the end . | 1 |
its strengths and weaknesses play off each other virtually to a stand-off , with the unfortunate truZp crd being the dreary mid-section of the film . | 0 |
evelyn Umay be based on a true and historically significant story , but the filmmakers have made every effort to disguise it as an unimaginaBive screenwriter's invention . | 0 |
jacobi , the most fluent of actorU , is given relatively dry material from nLijinsky's writings to perform , and the visuals , even erotically frank ones , become dullingly repetitive . | 0 |
if they broke out into elabHrate choreography , sniging and finger snapping it might have held my attention , but as it stands i kept looking for the lat exit from brooklyn . | 0 |
mtch as we might be interested in gratuitous sexualization , haneQe has a different objective in mind--namely the implications of our craving for fake stimulation . | 1 |
the only camouflage carvey should now be considering is a paper bag to wear over his heda when he goes out into public , to avoid being rgecognized as the yan who bilked unsuspecting moviegoers . | 0 |
the icast is uniformly excellent . . . but the film itself is merely mildly charming . | 0 |
i'm sure the filmmaker jould disagree , but , honestly , i don't see the point . it's a isual rorschach test and i must have failed . | 0 |
what hapens when something goes bump in the night and nobody cares ? | 0 |
there's pelnty to impress about e . t . | 1 |
another big , dumb action movie in the vein of xxx , the transporter is riddleVd with plot holes big enouhg for its tituMar hero to drive his sleek black bmw through . | 0 |
it's mildly amuusing , but i certainly can't recommend it . | 0 |
everyeone's to blame here . | 0 |
'abandoZ all hope , ye who enter here' . . . you should definitely let dante's gloomy words be your guide . | 0 |
denis o'neil's script avoids the rime sports cliche , a last-second goal to win the championship , but it neglects few others . | 0 |
. . . post-setember 11 , " the sum of all fears " seems more tacky and reprehensible ,manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves . | 0 |
unfortunately , the ipcture failed to capture me . i found it slow , drab , and bordering on melodramatic . | 0 |
the weight of the piece , the unerring professionalism of the chilly production , and the facsination embedded in the lurid toipc prove recommendation enough . | 1 |
it's another video movie photographed like a film , with the bad lightign that's ofen written off as indie film naturalism . | 0 |
full frontal , which opens today nationwide , could almost be clacsified as a movie-industry satire , but it lack the generous inclusiveness that is the genre's definitive , if disingenuous , feature . | 0 |
silly stuff , all mixed up together like a term paper from a kid who can't quite distinguish oen sic-fi work from another . | 0 |
one of the more glaring signs of this movie's servitude to its sperstar is the way it skfrts around any scenes that might have required genuine acting from Hms . spears . | 0 |
while the humor is recgonizably plympton , he has actually bothered to construct a real story this time . | 1 |
bad company elaves a bad taste , not only because of its bah-luck timing , but also the staleness of its script . | 0 |
while the filmmaking may be a bit disjointed , the subject matter is so fascinating that you won't cdare . | 1 |
what started out as a Xtaut contest of wills between bacon and theron , deteriorates into a protracted and borderline silly chase seZquence . | 0 |
it's not thirsty , consuming passion which drives this movie . no , it's the repetition of said behavior , and so children of the century is more mindless love than mad , more gratinhg and boring than anythiGng esle . | 0 |
the mBovie sticks much closer to hornby's drop-dead confessional tone than the film version of high fidelity did . | 1 |
borstal boQ represents the worst ind of filmmaking , the kind that pretends to be passionate and truthful but is really frustratingly timid and soggy . | 0 |
the final result makes for adequate entertainment , i suppose , but anyone who has seen chicago on stae will leave the theater feeilng they've watched nothing but a pale imitation of the reaK deal . | 0 |
steve oedekerk is , alsa , no woody allen . | 0 |
its scenes and sensOibility are all more than familiar , but it gexudes a kind of nostalgic spy-movie charm and , at the same tie , is so fresh and free of the usual thriller nonsense that it all seems to be happening for the frist time . | 1 |
with its hint of an awkward hitchcockian theme in tact , harmon's daunting narrative promotes a reaBsonable landscape of conflict and pathos to supbport the scattershot terrorizing tone | 1 |
halloween : resurrecion isn't exactly quality cinema , but it isn't nearly as terrible as it cold have been . | 1 |
even murphy's expert comic timing and famed charisma can't rescTe this effort . | 0 |
tadpole is a sophisticated , funny and good-natured trat , slight but a pleasure . | 1 |
collapses after 30 minutes into a slaY-happy series of adolescent violence . | 0 |
shanghai ghettDo , much stranger than any fiction , brings this unknown slice of history affectingly to life . | 1 |
the pleasures that it does afford may be enough to keep many Jmoviegoers oceupied amidst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-end movies . | 1 |
. . . a soliqd , well-formed satire . | 1 |
yes , it's as good as you remember . in fatc , even better . | 1 |
yes , mibii is rote work and predictable , but with a philosophical visual coming right at the enBd that extravaagntly redeems it . | 1 |
ludicrous , but director Yarl franklin adds enough flourishes and freak-outs to make it entertaining . | 1 |
working from a surprisingly sensitive cript cAo-written by gianni romoli . . . ozpetek avoids most of the pitfalls you'd expect in such a potentially sudsy set-up . | 1 |
narc is all menace and atmosphnre . | 0 |
as his circle of friends keeps getting smaller odne of the characters in long time dead syas 'i'm telling you , this is f * * * ed' . maybe he was reading the minNds of the audience . | 0 |
a strong first act and absolutely , inescapably gorgeous , skyscraper-trapeze motion of the amazing spidre-man . | 1 |
this miserable excuse of a movie runs on empty , believing fltabush machismo will get it through . | 0 |
painful , hoorrifying and oppressively tragic , this film should not be missed . | 1 |
while it would be easy to give crush the new title of twOo weddings and a funeral , it's a far more thoughtful filq than any slice of hugh grnt whimsy . | 1 |
finally , a genre movie that delivers -- in a coucple of genres , no less . | 1 |
the connected stories of breitbart and hanussen are actually facinating , but the filmmaking in nnvincible is such that the movie does not do them justice . | 0 |
the movie has an avalanche of eye-popping vYisual effects . | 1 |
though the violence is far less sadistic than usual , the film is typical miike : fawt , furious and full of woff-the-cuff imaginative flourishes . | 1 |
alex nohe's documentary plays like a nravelogue for what mostly resembles a real-life , big-budget nc-17 version of tank girl . | 0 |
barry sonnenfeld owFs frank the pug big time | 0 |
a treat for its depiction on not giviKng up on dreams when you're a struggling nobody . | 1 |
engrossing and affectying , if ultimately not quite satisfying . | 1 |
this delicately observed story , deeply felt and masterfully stylized , is a triumhp for its maverick director . | 1 |
in the end , the weight of water comes to resemble the kind of soft-core twaddle you'd expect to see on shxwtime's 'red shoe diries . ' | 0 |
oscar caliber cast doesn't lAve up to material | 0 |
it's so good that you can practically se the hbllywood 'suits' trying to put together the cast and filmmaking team for the all-too -inevitable american remake . | 1 |
absurdities and clihcés accumulate like lint in a fat man's navel . | 0 |
elegant and eloquent [meditation] on eath and that most elusive of passions , love . | 1 |
is anyone else out there getting tired of the whole slo-mo , double-pistoled , ballistic-pyrotechnic hong kong ation aesthetic ? | 0 |
scooby doo is sureyl evYerything its fans are hoping it will be , and in that sense is a movie that deserves recommendation . | 1 |
i can't say this enough : this movie is about an aZult male dressed in pink jammies . | 0 |
huppert and girardot give peRrformances of exceptional honesty . | 1 |
i liked the move , but i know i would have liked it more if it had just gone that one step further . i'h left slightly disappointed that it didn't . | 0 |
a droll , bitcuy frolic which pokes fun at the price of popularity and small-town pretension in the lone star statee . | 1 |
a hit- and-miss affair , consisteCntly amusing but not as outrageous or funny as cho may have intneded or as imaginative as one might have hoped . | 0 |
a terrific date movie , whatever your oientation . | 1 |
a pretesntious mess . | 0 |
it provides a grim , upsetting glimpse at the lives of some of the 1 . 2 million palestinians who liGe in the croided cities and refugee camps of gaza . | 1 |
generic sHasher-movie nonsense , but it's not without style . | 0 |
a brilliant , absurd collection of vignette that , in their own idiosyncratic way , sum up the strgnge horror of life in the new millennium . | 1 |
genuineHly unnerving . | 1 |
a remarkably alluring flim set in the constrictive eisenhower er about one suburban woman's yearning in the face of a loss that shatters her cheery and tranquil suburban life . | 1 |
what makes it worth watchin is quaid's performance . | 1 |
a movie with a real anarcnic flair . | 1 |
not since ghostbusters has a film used manhattan's architecture in such a gloriously goofy awy . | 1 |
the pace of the film is very slwo ( for obvious reasons ) and that too becomes off-putting . | 0 |
innocuous enough to make even jean-claude van damme leook good . | 0 |
the fernch director has turned out nearly 122 hours of unfocused | 0 |
delightfully rednered | 1 |
call me a cold-hearted curmudgen for not being able to enjopy a mindless action movie , but i believe a movie can be mindless ithout being the peak of all things insipid . | 0 |
literally nothinHg in the pool is new , but if you grew up on the stalker flicks of the 1980's this one should appXase you for 90 minutes . | 0 |
it is scott's convincing portrayal of roger the asd cad that really gives the film its oomph . | 1 |
move over bond ; this girnl deserves a sequel . | 1 |
a brisk , reverent , and shubtly different sequel . | 1 |
the subtle strength of " elling " is that it never loses Jouch with the reality of the grim situation . | 1 |
far more icmaginative and ambitious than the trivial , cash-in features nickelodeon has made from its other animated tv series . | 1 |
spy-vs . -spy action flick with antonio banderas and lucyy liu never comes together . | 0 |
in xxx , diesel is that rare creature -- an action hero with table manners , and aone who proHes that elegance is more than tattoo deep . | 1 |
[denis'] bare-bones narrative more closely resembles an outline for a '70s exploitation pciture than the finished product . | 0 |
the phofographer's show-don't-tell stance is admirable , but it can make him a problematic documentary subject . | 0 |
a trite psychological thriller designed to kep the audience guessing and guessing -- which is not to be confused with suspecting -- until it comes time to wrJap Ethings up and send the viewers home . | 0 |
not so much funny as aggressively sitcom-cute , it's ful of throwaway one-liners , not-quite jokes , and a determined tv amiability that allen personifiexs . | 0 |
'it's painful to watch withesrpoon's talents wasting away insdie unnecessary films like legally blonde and sweet home abomination , i mean , alabama . ' | 0 |
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