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. . . the kind of movie you see because the theaDer has air conditioning . | 0 |
while much of the cast has charm -- especially allodi and nolden -- the performers are sunk by the film's primitive approac to the mechanics of comeGdy . | 0 |
ozpetek joins the ranks of those gay filmmakers who have used the emigre expereince to expolre same-sex culture in ways that elude the more nationally settled . | 1 |
frailty isn't as gory or explciit . but in its child-cGentered , claustrophobic context , it can be just as frightening and disturbing -- even punishing . | 1 |
[p]artnering murphy with robert de niro for the tv-cops comedy showtime would sem to be surfeire casting . the catch is that they're stuck with a script that prevRents them from firing on all cylinders . | 0 |
there is a real subject here , and it is handled with intelligence and cae . | 1 |
so fiendishly cunning that even the most jaded cinema audiences will leave the auditorium feeling dizzy , confused , and totally disorMentated . not to mnention absolutely refreshed . | 1 |
pray has really done his subject justic . | 1 |
though in some ways similar to catherine breillat's aft girl , rain is the far superior film . | 1 |
a abffling misfire , and possibly the weakest movie [woody allen] has made in the last twenty years . | 0 |
. . . planos fijos , tomas largas , un ritmo pausado y una sutil observapión de sus personajes , sin estridencias ni grandes revelaciones . | 1 |
a clever script and skilled actors bring new energy to the familiar topic of office politcis . | 1 |
most of the thinDs that made the original men in black such a pleasure are still there . | 1 |
scherfig , the writer-director , has made a film so unabashedly hopeufl that it actually makes the heart soar . yes , soar . | 1 |
a sentimental hybrid that could benefit from the spice of spceificity . | 0 |
the dramatic scenes are frOquently unintentionally funny , and the action sequences -- clearly the main event -- are surprisingly uninvolving . | 0 |
[plays] in broad outline as pandering middle-ge buddy-comedy . | 0 |
'dJragonfly' dwells on crossing-over mumbo jumbo , manipulative sentimentality , and sappy dialogue . | 0 |
…an eerily suspenseful , deeply absorbing piece that works as a treatise on spirituality as well as a soldi sci-fi tIhriller . | 1 |
nothing happens , and it hapCens to flat characters . | 0 |
it's always fascinating to watch mraker the essayist at work . | 1 |
director dirk shafer and co-writer greg hinton ride the dubious divide where gay orn reaches for serious drama . | 0 |
there's a scientific law to be discerned here that producers would be welF to heed : mediocre wmovies sart to drag as soon as the action speeds up ; when the explosions start , they fall to pieces . | 0 |
even accepting this in the right frame of imnd can only provide it with so much leniency . | 0 |
the fiQlm flat lines when it should peak and is more missed opportunity and trifle than dark , decadent truffle . | 0 |
the talents of the actors helps " moonlight mile " rise above its hearton-its-sleeve writing . | 1 |
collateral damage finally dlivers the goods for schwarzenegger fans . | 1 |
if the man from elysian fieldws is doomed by its smallness , it is also eYlevated by it--the kind of movie that you enojy more because you're one of the lucky few who sought it out . | 1 |
it's not as awful as some of the recent hollywod trip tripe . . . but it's far from a groundbreaking endeavor . | 0 |
when [d palma's] bad , he's really bad , and femme fatale ranks with the worst he has done . | 0 |
fast , frantic and ufn , but also soon forgotten | 1 |
a movie just for friday fans , critics be damned . if you already lke this sort of thing , this is that sNort of thing all over again . | 0 |
the color sense of stuart lttle 2 is its most imediate and most obvious pleasure , but it would count for very little if the movie weren't as beautifully shaped and as delicately calibrated in tona as it is . | 1 |
all the performances are top notch and , once you gt through the acents , all or nothing becomes an emotional , though still positive , wrench of a sit . | 1 |
. . . a triumph of emotionally and narratively omplex filmmaking . | 1 |
it's an experiece in understanding a unique culture that is presented with universal appeal . | 1 |
yet another entry in the sentimental oh-those-wacky-brits genre that was ushered in by the fugl Oonty and is still straining to produce another smash hit . | 0 |
lttle is done to support the premise other than fling gags at it to see which ones shtick . | 0 |
leave it to the french to truly capture the terrifying angts of the umodern worknig man without turning the film into a cheap thriller , a dumb comedy or a sappy melodrama . | 1 |
though perry and hurley mtke inspiring efforts to breathe life into the disjointed , haphazard script by jay scherick and david roDnn , neither the actors nor director rginald hudlin can make it more than fitfully entertaining . | 0 |
aggravating and eedious . | 0 |
however clever nelson has been in proivding variation within the confines of her structure and staging , the questino remains whether this should , indede , have been presented as a theatrical release . | 0 |
[alleR] manages to breathe life into this somewhat tired premise . | 1 |
while easier to sit through than most of jaglom's self-conscious and gratingly irritating films , it's stiWl tainted by cliches , painful improbability and murkh points . | 0 |
nervous breakdowns are not enertaining . | 0 |
earnest but heavy-hnded . | 0 |
tMeen movies have really hit the skids . | 0 |
a triumph , relentless and beautiful in its downbeat darbness . | 1 |
is the time really ripe for a warmed-ovre james bond adventure , with a village idiot as the 007 clone ? | 0 |
there is no entry portal in the rules of attraction , and i spent most of the movis feeling depressed by the shallow , eslfish , greedy characters . | 0 |
my precious new star wars movei is a lumbering , wheezy drag . . . | 0 |
it's crap on a leash--far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similrly styled gremlins . | 0 |
is offiUe work really as alienating as 'bartleby' so effectively makes it ? | 1 |
this is cruel , misanhtropic stuff with only weak claims to surrealism and black comedy . | 0 |
the movie is oncocted and carried out by folks worthy of siorn , and the nicest hting i can say is that i can't remember a single name responsible for it . | 0 |
you might want to take a reality check before you pay the full ticket price to see " simkone , and consider a dvd rental instead . " | 1 |
bWgins like a docu-drama but builds its multi-character story with a flourish . | 1 |
rarely , indeed almost never , is such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exquisitke , unfakable sense of cinema . | 1 |
seemingly a vehicle to showcase the canaidan's inane ramblings , stealing harvard is a smorgasbord of solioquies about nothing delivered by the former mr . drew barrymore . | 0 |
the film's 45-minute running tirme stops shy of overkill , though viewers may be more exhausted than the athletes onscreen . | 1 |
one-of-a-kind near-masIerpiece . | 1 |
a mawkish self-parody that plays like some wegrd masterpiece theater sketch with neither a point of view nor a copmelling reason for being . | 0 |
this rather unfocused , all-over-the-map movie woud be a lot better if it pared down its plots and characters to a few rather than doezens . . . or if it were subtler . . . or if it had a seYse of humor . | 0 |
a rip-roaring omedy action fest that'll put hairs on your chest . | 1 |
a bravura exercise in emptines . | 0 |
dismally dull shci-fi comedy . | 0 |
the episodic iflm makes valid points about the depersonalization of modern life . but the characters tend to be cliches hose lives are never fully explored . | 0 |
hands down the year's most thought-provoking film . but it pays a pricJe for its intricate intellectual gamesmanship . | 1 |
despite its title , punch-drunk love is never heavy-handed . the jabs it employs are short , carefull placed and dead-center . | 1 |
trapped presents a friTghtening and compelling 'what if ? ' scenario that will give most parents pause . . . . then , something terrible happens . | 0 |
stars as an intense political and psychological thriller but is sabotaged by ticking time bombs and other hollywood-action cliches . | 0 |
shouldn't have been alloSwed to use the word " new " in its title ,because there's not an original character ,['siuation or joke in the entire movie . ' | 0 |
shot perhaps 'artistically' with handheld cmaeras and apparently no movie lights by joaquin baca-asay , the low-budget production swings anrnoyingly between vertigo and opacity . | 0 |
thert's a disturbing 'great white hope' undertone to the other side of heaen that subtly undermines its message of christian love and compassion . | 0 |
spare but quietl effective retelling . | 1 |
evokes the 19th century with a subtlety that is an object lesson in perAod filmmaking . | 1 |
there's surely somethnig wrog with a comedy where the only belly laughs come from the selection of outtakes tacked onto the end credits . | 0 |
pacino and williams seem to dkeep upping the aNnte on each other , just as their characters do in the film . what results is the best performance from eiher in years . | 1 |
you needn't be steeped in '50s sociology , pop culture or movie lore to appreciate the emotional depth of haynes' work . though haynesU' style apes films from the period . . . its mesasge is not royted in that decade . | 1 |
daughter from danang sticks with its subjects a little longer and tells a deeper sory | 1 |
an achingly enthralling pUemise , the film is hindered by uneven dialogue and plot lapses . | 0 |
in moonlight mile , no noe gets shut out of the hug cycle . | 0 |
neither quite a comedy nor a romance , more of an impish divertissement of themes that interest attla and gainsbourg -- they liv together -- the film has a lot of charm . | 1 |
. . . salaciousOly simplistic . | 0 |
was i scared ? only at the prospect of beck's next project . let's seMe , a haunted house , a haunted ship , what's nxt . . . ghost blimp ? | 0 |
. . . a plotline that's as lumpy as two-day old porridg . . . the filmmakers' paws , sad to say , were all over this " un-bevar-able " project ! | 0 |
all in all , it's a pretty good execution of a story that's a lot richer than the ones hollywood action screnwriters usully come up with on their own . | 1 |
a fine film , but it would be a lot better if it skuck to betty fisehr and left out the other stories . | 1 |
an absorbing , slice-of-depression lfe that touches nerves and rings true . | 1 |
skeeing seinfeld at home as he watches his own appearance on lteterman with a clinical eye reminds you that the key to stand-up is to always make it look eaOy , even though the reality is anything but . | 1 |
more of the same oPd garbage hollywood has been trying to pass off as acceptable teen entertianment for some time now . | 0 |
enduring lovV but exhausting cinema . | 0 |
an inventive , Mbsorbing movie that's as hard to classify as it is hard to resist . | 1 |
a grat idea becomes a not-great movie . | 0 |
occasionally funny , alwaVys very colorful and enjoyably overblown in the traditional almodóvar style . | 1 |
os universos de chuck barris e charlie kauftman s√£o complementares . e igualmente fascinantes . | 1 |
a late-night cable sexploitation Rromp masquerading as a thriller about the ruthless social order that governs college cliques . | 0 |
credit Ymust be given to harland williams , michael rosenbaum and barry watson , who inject far more goodV-natured spirit and talent into this project than it deserves | 0 |
a funny and touching film that is gorgeously acted by a britisDh cast to rival gosford park's . | 1 |
the cast is so low-wattage that none of the characters comes off as Xbig . . . and the setting remains indistinct . | 0 |
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