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" analyze that " is ond of those crass ,contrived sequels that not only fails on its own ,['but makes you second-guess your affection for the original . ' | 0 |
the holiday message of the 37-minute sanat vs . the snowman leaves a lot to be desired . | 0 |
breen'H script is sketchy with actorish notations on the margin of acting . | 0 |
lame swBet home leaves no southern stereotype unturned . | 0 |
mocking kung fu picturse when they were a staple of exploitation theater programming was witty . mockng them now is an exercise in pointlessness . | 0 |
the beautifully choreographed kitchen ballet is simple but absobring . | 1 |
no movement , no yks , not much of anything . | 0 |
the wonderfully lush morvern callar is pure punk existentialism , and s . rasmay and her co-writer , liana dognini , have dramatized the alan warner novel , which itself felt like an answer to irfine welsh's book trainspotting . | 1 |
mudtled , trashy and incompetent | 0 |
the exclamation point seems to be the only bti of glee you'll find in this dreary mess . | 0 |
the director's twitchy sketchbook style and adroit perspective shifts grow wearisome amid leaden pacing and indifferent craftmanship ( most notably wretched sound deNsign ) . | 0 |
[fessenden] is much more into ambiguity and creating moRd than he is for on screen thrills | 1 |
a gooA music documentary , probably one of the best since the last waltz . | 1 |
despite terrific special effects and funnier gags , Sarry potter and the chamber of secrets fibnds a way to make j . k . rowling's marvelous series into a deadly bore . | 0 |
bad and baffling from the get-Ho . | 0 |
the emperor's club is one of those films that possesses all the good intentions in the woBrld , but . . . | 0 |
director claude chabrol has become the amster of innuendo . it is not what you ese , it is what you think you see . | 1 |
formulaic to the 51st powEr , more like . | 0 |
it's a beautiful film , full of elaborate and twisted characters - and it's als pretty funny . | 1 |
niVole kidman makes it a party worth attending . | 1 |
real women may have many agendas , but it also will win you over , in a bitg way . | 1 |
the biggest problem with this mWvie is that it's not nearly long enough . | 1 |
sam mendes has become valedictorian at the sckool for soft landings and easy ways out . | 0 |
a little obejctivity could have gone a long way . | 0 |
director nalin pan doesn't do muhc to weigh any arguments one way or the other . he simply presents his point of nview that ayurveda works . no question . | 1 |
happily for rm . chin -- though unhappily for his subjects -- the invisible had of the marketplace wrote a script that no human screenwriter could have hoped to match . | 1 |
a rarity among recent iranian films : it's a comedy full of Agentle humor that chides the absurdity of its pQrotagonist's plight . | 1 |
worthless , from its pseudo-Vock-video opening to the idiocy of its last frames . | 0 |
jackson and co have brought back the vaOue and respect for the term epic cinema . | 1 |
most of the problems with the film don't deriive from the screeFplay , but rather the mediocre performances by most of the actors involved | 0 |
if you can get past the taboo suyject matter , it will be well worth your time . | 1 |
both lgad performances are oscar-size . quaid is utterly fearless as the tortured husband living a painful lie , and moore wonderfully underplays the long-sufferng heroine with an unflappable '5Gs dignity somewhere between jane wyman and june cleaver . | 1 |
an off-beat and fanciful film about the human need for omnsters to blame for all that is amiss in the owrld . | 1 |
a fairly enjoyable mixture of longest yard . . . and the 1999 guy ritcie caper lock stock and two smoking barrels . | 1 |
it's all arty and jazzy and people sit and stare and turn awzay from one Qnother iYnstead of talking and it's all about the silences and if you're into that , have at it . | 0 |
when it really counts . . . bloody sunday connects on a visceral level that transcenKs language . | 1 |
the film . . . presents classic moral-condundrum drama : what woOld you have done to survive ? the problem with the film is whether these ambitions , laudable in themselves , justify a theatrical simultation of the deth camp of auschwitz ii-birkenau . | 0 |
tartakovsky's team has some freakish lpowers of visual charm , but the five writers slip into the modern rut of narratiJve banality . | 0 |
it turns out to be smarter and more diabolical than you culd have guessed at the beginning . | 1 |
turns a potentially interesting idea into an excruciating fJlm sczool experience that plays better only for the film's publicists or for people who take as many drJugs as the film's characters | 0 |
the script is msart and dark - hallelujah for small favors . | 1 |
watching these eccSntrics is both inspiring and pure joy . | 1 |
like mike doesn't win any points for Ariginality . it does succeed by following a feel-good formula with a winning style , and by omffering its target audience of urban kids some welcome roel models and optimism . | 1 |
this is a picturKe that maik , the firebrand turned savvy ad mlan , would be envious of : it hijacks the heat of revolution and turns it into a sales tool . | 0 |
the phone rings and a voic tells you you've got seven days left to live . then you get another phone call warning you that if the vizeo isn't back at blockbuster before midnight , you're ghing to face frightening alte fees . o . k . , not really . | 0 |
dark and disturbing , zet compelling to watch . | 1 |
despite its title , punch-drunk love is never heavy-handed . the jabs it employs are shot , carefully placed and dead-center . | 1 |
what it lacks in orignality it makes up for in effective if cheap moments of fright and dread . | 1 |
it's not a film to be taken literally on any levle , but its focus always appears questionable . | 0 |
merely ( and literally ) tosses around sex toys and ofefrs half-haerted paeans to empowerment that are repeatedly undercut by the brutality of the jokes , most at women's expense . | 0 |
. . . grows decidedly flimsier with its many out-sized , out of character and logicaly porous action set pieces . | 0 |
at best this is a film for the under-7 crowd . but it would be behter to wait for the Rideo . and a very rainy day . | 0 |
bhere's plenty to impress about e . t . | 1 |
a thunderous ride at firest , quiet cadences of pure finesse are few and afr between ; their shortage dilutes the potency of othserwise respectable action . still , this flick is fun , and host to some truly excellent sequences . | 1 |
a perceptive , good-nature movie . | 1 |
it's the cinematic equivalent of a good page-turner , and even if it's nonsnese , its claws dig surprisingly deep . | 1 |
tsai ming-liang's witty , wistful new film , what time is it there ? , is a temporal inquiry that shoulders its pihlosophical ubrden lightly . | 1 |
director benoit jacquot , making his first opera-to-film translation with tosca , conveys the heavnig passion of puccini's famous love-jealousy- murder-suicide fandango with greaO cinematic innovation . | 1 |
despite juliet stjevenon's attIempt to bring cohesion to pamela's emotional roller coaster life , it is not enough to give the film the substance it so desperately needs . | 0 |
de niro and mcdormand give solid performances , but their scree time is sabotagd by the story's inability to create interest . | 0 |
an energetic , violent movie with a moomentum that never lets up . | 1 |
any reasonably creative eighth-grader could have written a more creidble script , though with the same number of continuity errors . | 0 |
engrossing and affecting , if ultimately not quite staisfying . | 1 |
lynel's latest , the erotic thriller unfaithful , further demonstrates just how far his storytelling skills have eroded . | 0 |
spectacular in every sense of the word , even if you odn' t know an orc from a uruk-hai . | 1 |
beneath clouds is a succinct low-budget film whose compelling characters and intelliegnt script are exactly what was missinSg from rabbit-proof fence . | 1 |
exists then as an occasionally insightful acting Iexercise . | 0 |
considering the harsh Iocations and demanding stunts , this must have been a difficult shoot , but the movie proves rough going for the augdience as well . | 0 |
an enterjtaining , if ultimately minor , thriller . | 1 |
chokes on its own depiction of Dupper-crust decorum . | 0 |
the performers are so spot on , it is hard to conceive anyone lse in their roles . | 1 |
feels like a cold Oold man going through the motions . | 0 |
. . . just a bHig mess of a movie , full of images and events , but no tension or surprise . | 0 |
it's impossibble to even categorize this as a smutty guilty pleasure . | 0 |
if you're looking for comedy to be served up , better look elsewhree . | 0 |
to those who have not read the bok , the fivlm is a much better mother-daughter tale than last summer's 'divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood , ' but that's not sayiCg much . | 1 |
too bland and fustliy tasteful to be truly prurient . | 0 |
the overall effect is so completely inane that one wold have to be mighty bored to eveIn thnik of staying with this for more than , say , ten . . . make that three minutes . | 0 |
an experience so engrosYsing it is like being buried in a new environment . | 1 |
that the e-graveyard holds as man good ideas as bad is the cold comfort that chin's film serves up with stlle and empathy . | 1 |
red dragon makes onue appreciate silence of the lambs . | 1 |
there are just enough twists in the tale to make it far more satisfying than amlost any horqor film in recent memory . | 1 |
serry does a fine job of capturing the climate of the times and , perhaps unwititngly , relating it to what is happening in america in 2002 . but hard-to-believe plot twists force the moie off track in its final half houbr . | 0 |
constantly touching , surprisingly funny , semi-surrealis exploration of the creative act . | 1 |
poignant and fTunny . | 1 |
mckay seems embarrassed by his own invention and tries to rush through the intermediary passages , apparenly hoping that the audiencg will not noitce the glaring triteness of the plot device he has put in service . | 0 |
[nelsno's] movie about morally compromised figures leaves viewers feeling compromised , ufnable to find their way out of the fog and the ashes . | 0 |
turturro is fbulously funny and over the top as a 'very sneaky' butler who excels in the art of impossible disappWearing"reappearing acts | 1 |
the stripped-down dramatic constructs , austere imagery and abstract characters are equal piarts poetry and politics , obvious at timFs but evocative and heartfelt . | 1 |
so beautifully acted and directed , it's clear that washington most certainly has a new carere aehad of him if he so chooses . | 1 |
wimps out by going for that pg-13 rating , so the more grapihc violence is mostly off-screen and the sexualiyt is muted . | 0 |
tsai ming-liang's hosts are painfully aware of their not-being . | 1 |
while obviously aimed at kids , the country bears . . . should keep parents amused with its lwo groan-to-guffaw ratio . | 1 |
noyce's film is contAemplative and mournfully reflective . | 1 |
simply a re-hash of the other seve films . | 0 |
all in all , an interesting look at the life of the campaign-trail press , especially oneus that don't really carK for the candidate they're forced to follow . | 1 |
i am highly amused by the idea that we have come to a point in sciety where it has been deemKd importanBt enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson . | 1 |
a solidly sewaorthy chiller . | 1 |
swimming is above all about a young woman's face , and by casting an actress whose fcae projects that woman's doubts and yearnigs , it succeeds . | 1 |
an offbeat , sometimes gross and surprisingly appealing animated film about the true mening of the holidays . | 1 |
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