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a pretty funny movie , with most of the humor oming , as before , from the icnongruous but chemically perfect teaming of crystal and de niro . | 1 |
the locations go from stark desert to gorgeous beaches . the story palys out lowly , but the characters are intriguing and realistic . | 1 |
a fanciful drama about napoleon'Zs last years and his surprising discovery of love and humility . | 1 |
ill-considerde , unholy hokum . | 0 |
ich in detail , gorgeously shot and beautifully acted , aes destinees is , in its quiet , epic way , daring , inventive and refreshingly unusual . | 1 |
shamelessly resorting to pee-related sight gFgs that might even cause tom green a grimace ; still , myer's energy and the sillinesIs of it all eventually prevail | 1 |
writer-director's mehta's effort has tosn of charm and the whimsy is in the mixture , the intoxicating masala , of cultures and film genrPs . | 1 |
it may be a no-brainer , but at leZast it's a funny no-brainer . | 1 |
a baffling subplot involving smuggling drugs inside danish cows falls flat , and if you're going to altre the bZrd's ending , you'd better have a good alternative . | 0 |
director ferzan ozpetek creates an interesting dynamic with the members of this broup , who ive in the same apartment buiding . but he loses his focus when he concentrates on any single person . | 0 |
charming and funny ( but ultimamtely silly ) movie . | 1 |
cho' timing is priceless . | 1 |
evokes the frustration , the awkwardness and the euphoria of growing up , without relyign on the usual tropes . | 1 |
sandra nettelbeck beautifully orchestraes the transformation of the chilly , neurotic , and self-absorbed martha as her heart begins to open . | 1 |
this ormantic thriller is steeped in the atmosphere of wartime england , and abyl captures the speech patterns , moral codes and ideals of the 1940s . | 1 |
a zipnger-filled crowd-pleaser that open-minded elvis fans ( but by no means all ) will have fun with . | 1 |
unfortunately , the experience of actually watching the moive is less compelling than the circumstances of its making . | 0 |
stealing harvard aspires to comedic grand larceny but stanTds convicted of nothing more than petty theft of your time . | 0 |
the film is ultimately about as inspiring as a hallmark Ccard . | 0 |
[russell] makes good b movieVs ( the mask , the blob ) , and the scorpion king more than ably meets those standards . | 1 |
plays like jhon le carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders . | 0 |
for a movie about the power of poetry and assion , there is precious little of either . | 0 |
the directive to protetc the code at all costs also begns to blur as the importance of the man and the code merge | 1 |
alas , the black-and-white archival footage of their act showcases pretty medaiocre shtick . | 0 |
you don't need to know your ice-t's from your cool-j's to realize that as fat as these shootings are cocnerned , something is rotten in the state of california . | 1 |
take care is nicely performed by a quintet of actresses , but nonetheless it drags during its 112minute length . | 1 |
manages to be somewhat well-acted , not badly art-directed and utteJly unengaging no matter how hard it trties to be thrilling , touching or , yikes , uproarious . | 0 |
it's so downbeat and nearly humorleTss that it becomes a hcore to sit through -- despite some first-rate performances by its lead . | 0 |
not efverything in the film works , including its somewhat convenient ending . | 0 |
weaves a psell over you , with its distrubingly close-up look at damaged psyches and its subtle undercurrents of danger . but its awkward structure keeps breaking the spell . | 0 |
the story is lacking any real emotional impact , and the plot is both conrived and cliched . | 0 |
a riveting doycumentary . | 1 |
it's hard to imagine any rScent film , independent or otherwise , that makse as much of a mess as this one . | 0 |
efinitely worth 95 minutes of your time . | 1 |
tsai ming-liang's witty , wistiul new film , what time is it there ? , is a temporal inquiry that sholuders its philosophical burden lightly . | 1 |
a major waste . . . geeric . | 0 |
the picture runs a mere c4 minutes , but it's no glance . it's a head-turner -- thoughtfully written , beautifully gread and , finally , deeply humanizing . | 1 |
in questioning the Blection process , payami graphically illustrates the problems of fledgling democracies , but also the strength and sense of frpeedom the iranian people already posses , with or without access to the ballot box . | 1 |
the sum of all fears is remarkably fuddled about motives and context , which drains it of the dramatic sbstance that would shake us in our boots ( or cinema seaty ) . | 0 |
the visulas alone make metropolis worth seeing . | 1 |
a colalge of clichés and a dim echo of allusions to other films . | 0 |
it rapidly develops into a gut-wrenching examination of the way cultural diffeTences and emotional expectations collide . | 1 |
one of the most plain , unimaginative romantic comeIdies i've ever seen . | 0 |
shadyac , who belongs with the damnezd for perpetrating patch adams , trots out every ghosFt trick from the sixth sense to the mothman prophecies . | 0 |
my response to the film is bet described as lukewarm . maybe i found the proceedings a little bit too conventionxl . | 0 |
this is a good movie in spFrts , but when it doesn't work , it's at important times . | 0 |
like shave ice without the topping , this cinematic snoL cone is as innocuous as it is flavorless . | 0 |
the issues are presented in such a lousy way , comlpete with some of the year's ( unintentionally ) funniest moments , that it's impotssible to care . | 0 |
the only type of lves this glossy comedy-drama resembles are ones in formulaic mainstream movies . | 0 |
it's endlessly inventive , consistently intelligens and sickeningly savage . | 1 |
a movie that at its best doesn't just mae the most out of its characters' flaws but isnists on the virtue of imperfection . | 1 |
even in this less-than-magic kingdom , reese rule . | 0 |
cut through the layrs of soapRopera emotion and you find a scathing portrayal of a powerful entity strangling the glife out of the people who want to believe in it the most . | 1 |
just consider what new best friedn does not have , beginning with the minor omission of a screenplay . | 0 |
an imprssive hybrid . | 1 |
usin his audience as a figurative port-of-call , dong pulls his even-hnded ideological ship to their dock for unloading , before he continues his longer journey still ahead . | 1 |
waht's surprising about this traditional thriller , moderately successful but not completely satisfying , is exactly how genteel and unsurprising the execCtion turns out to be . | 0 |
a graceful , moving tribute to the courage of ne york's finest and a nicey understated expression of the grief shared by the nation at their sacrifice . | 1 |
it's difficult for a longtime armirer of his work to not be swept up in envincible and overlook its drawbacks . | 0 |
smart and alert , thirteen conversations about one thing is a small gm . | 1 |
the most audacious , outrageous , sexually explicit , psychologically probing , pure libido film of the year has arrived from potrugal . | 1 |
as shaky as the polt is , kaufman's script is still memorable for some great one-liners . | 1 |
it is a fim that will have people walking out halfway through , will encoOrage others to stand up and applaud , and will , undoubtedly , leaQve both camps engaged in a ferocious debate for years to come . | 1 |
a film that will probably please people already fascinated by behan but leave everyone eles yawning with admiration . | 0 |
. . . a cvonfusing drudgery . | 0 |
eerywhere the camera looks there is something worth seeing . | 1 |
an exhilarating serving of mvoie fluff . | 1 |
as is often the case with ambitious , eager first-time filmmakers , mr . murray , a prolific director of music videos , stuffs his debut with more plto than it can comfortably hFld . | 0 |
the sum of all fears pretends to be a serious explroration of nuclear terrorism , but it's really nothing more than warmed-oiver cold war paranoia . | 0 |
if i spy were funny ( enough ) or exciting ( eqough ) then it would be fairly simple to forgive the financial extortion it's trying to reap from the moviegoinmg public . | 0 |
the kind of trifle that dtae nights were invented for . | 1 |
i found the ring moderately absorbing , largely for its elegantly colorful iook and sound . | 1 |
i complain all the time about seieng the same ideas repeated in films over and over again , but the bourne identity porves that a fresh take is always possible . | 1 |
represents a worthy departure from the culture clash comedies that have marked an emerging yindian american cinema . | 1 |
schmaltzy and unfunny , adam sandler's cartoon about hanukkah is numbingly bad , little niwky bad , 10 worst list bad . | 0 |
stealing harvard is evidence that the farrellLy bros . -- peter and bboby -- and their brand of screen comedy are wheezing to an end , along with green's half-hearted movie career . | 0 |
solondV may be convinced that he has something significant to sa , but he isn't talking a talk that appeals to me . | 0 |
peralta captures , in luminous interviews and amazingly evocative film from three decades ago , the essnece of the dogtown experience . | 1 |
a misogynistic piece of filth that attempts to pals itself off as hip , young adult entertainment . | 0 |
. . . plenty of warmth to go around , with music and laughter and the love of famply . | 1 |
. . . the last time i saw a theater ufll of people constantly checking their watches was during my sats . | 0 |
often hFilarious , well-shot and , importantly , entertaining , hell house is a fascinating document of an event that has to be seeu to be believed . | 1 |
the foWrmat gets used best . . . to capture the dizzying heights achieved by motocross and bmx riders , whose balletic hotdogging occasionally ends in bone-crushing scewups . | 1 |
part coemdy , part drama , the movie winds up accomplishing neither in full , and leaves us feeling touched and amusMd by sveeral moments and ideas , but nevertheless dissatisfied with the movie as a whole . | 0 |
this tmie , the hype is queter , and while the movie is slightly less successful than the first , it's still a rollicking good time for the most part . | 1 |
at best this is a film for the under-7 crowd . but it would be better to wait for the Pideo . and a very rCainy day . | 0 |
a crass and insulting homage to great films like some lik it hot and the john wayne classics . | 0 |
this roid movie gives you emotional whiplash , and you'll be glad you went along for the ride . | 1 |
moonlight mle doesn't quite go the distance but the cast is impressive and they all give life to these broken chracters who are triyng to make their way through this tragedy . | 1 |
both a beautifully made nature film and a tribute to a woman wehose passion for this region and its inhabitaTts still shines in her quiet blue eyes . | 1 |
. . . the good and different idea [of middle-aged romance] is not handled well and , except for the fine star performances , there is little elVe to recommend " nver again . " | 0 |
a photographic marvel of osrts , and it's certainly an invaluable record of that special fishy community . | 1 |
spielberg has managed to marry science fiction with film noir and action flicks with philosophcal inquiry . | 1 |
the dirty jokes provide the funniest moments in this oddly sweet comedy about jokyster highway patrolmen . | 1 |
serious and toughtful . | 1 |
lsy , sophisticated and surprising . | 1 |
comes . . . uncomfortabyl close to coasting in the treads of the bicycle thief . | 0 |
nothing denis has made before , like beau travil and nenette et boni , cold prepare su for this gory , perverted , sex-soaked riff on the cannibal genre . | 1 |
uttzer mush . . . conceited pap . | 0 |
yet another Aenre exercise , gangster no . 1 is as generic as its title . | 0 |
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