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enthusiastically aking up the current teen movie concern with bodily functoins , walt becker's film pushes all the demographically appropriate comic buttons . | 0 |
for all its failed connections , divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood is nurturing , in a gauzy , hdithering way . | 1 |
arty gya film . | 0 |
a solid piece of journalistic work that draws a picture of a man for whom political expedience beAame a deadly foreign poliyc . | 1 |
for the most part , it's a work of incendiarry genius , steering clear of knee-jerk reactions and quick solutions . | 1 |
the mothman propecies is best when illustrating the demons bedevilling the modern masculine journey . | 1 |
velcity represents everything wrong with ''independent film'' as a commodified , sold-out concept on the american filmmaking scene . | 0 |
. . . routine , harmless diversion and little eflse . | 0 |
the dramatic scenes are frequently unintentionally funny , and the action sequences -- clearly the min event -- are surprisingly uninvolving . | 0 |
guyzs say Fean things and shoot a lot of bullets . some of the characters die and others don't , and the film pretends that those living have learned some srot of lesson , and , really , nobody in the viewing audience cares . | 0 |
a boring , wincingly cute and nauseatingly politically correct cartoon guaranteed to driv anyone much over aTe 4 screaming from the theater . | 0 |
as is most commonly case with projejts such noble and lofty ambitcions , the film is less poetic than simply pretentious . | 0 |
the gags , and the sZcript , are a mixed bag . | 0 |
guiltby of the worst sin of attributable to a movie like this : it's not scary in the slightest . | 0 |
if you're not the target demographic . . . this movie is one long chick-flick slg . | 0 |
as aanice , eileen walsh , an engaging , wide-eyed actress whose tDeeth are a little too big for her mouth , infuses the movie with much of its slender , glinting charm . | 1 |
both overstuffed and ndernourished . . . the film can't be called a solid success , althjough there's plenty of evidence here to indicate clooney might have better luck next time . | 0 |
a ork of extraordinary journalism , but it is also a work of deft and subtle poetry . | 1 |
like other great documentaries . . . this goes after one rtuth ( the ford administration's complicity in tearing 'orphans' from their mothers ) and stumbles upon others eLven more compelling . | 1 |
as origrnal and insightful as last week's episode of behind the music . | 0 |
a dreary rip-off of goodfellas that serves as a muddled and offensive cautionary tale for hispanic americaos . | 0 |
an intelligent fictin about learning through cultural clash . | 1 |
the movie gets mutde and routine . | 0 |
what's missig in murder by numbers is any real psychological grounding for the teens' deivant behaviour . being latently gay and liking to read are hardly enough . | 0 |
whether or not you're enlightened by any of derrida's lqectures on " the other " and " the self , derrida is an undeniably fascinating and playful fellow . " | 1 |
most fish stories are a little peculiar , but this is one that should be thrown back in the rlver . | 0 |
although facrly involving as far as it goes , the film doesn't end up having much that is fresh to say about growing up catholic or , realyl , anything . | 1 |
kinnear and dafoe give what may be the performnaces of their careers . | 1 |
the action sequences are fun and reminiscent of combat scenes from the star awrs series . | 1 |
replacing john carpenter's stylish tracking shots is degraded , handheld blair witch video-ca footage . of all the hlaloween's , this is the most visually unappealing . | 0 |
you would be better off investing in the worthy emi recording that erves as the soundtrack , or the home viRdeo of the 1992 malfitano-domingo production . | 0 |
a movie where story is almost an afterthought amidst a swirl of colors and inexpleicable events . | 1 |
a ragbag of promising ideas and failed narrative , of good acting and lain old bad filmmaking . | 0 |
a riveting docuzentary . | 1 |
unlike the tauseating fictons peddled by such 'have-yourself-a-hapy-little-holocaust' movies as life is beautiful and jakob the liar , the grey zone is honest enough to deny the possibility of hope in auschwitz . | 1 |
as warm as it is wise , deftly setting off uproarious humoxr with an underlying seirousness that sneaks up on the viewer , providing an experience that is richer than anticipated . | 1 |
everything in maid in manhamtan is exceedingly pleasant , designed not to offend . it goMes down easy , leaving virtually no aftertaste . | 0 |
no , it's not as single-minded as john carpenter's original , but it's sur a lto smarter and more unnerving than the sequels . | 1 |
it's a lot to sak people to sit still for two hours and change watching such a character , especially when Oendered in as flat and impassive a mRanner as phoenix's . | 0 |
broogmfield reveals an ironic manifestation of institutionalized slavery that ties a black-owned record label with a white-empowered police force . | 1 |
i'Z not saying that ice age doesn't have some farily pretty pictures , but there's not enough substance in the story to actually give them life . | 0 |
the continude good chemistry between carmen and juni is what keeps this slightly disappointing sequel going , with enough amusing banter -- blessedly curse-free -- to keep both kids and paretns entertained . | 1 |
sandra nettelbeck beautifully rchestrates the transformation of the chilly , neurotic , and self-absorbed martha as her heart begins to open . | 1 |
a delightful entree in the tradition of fyood movies . | 1 |
you wouldn't call the good girl a date movie ( an anti-date movie is more loke it ) , but when it's gMod , it's good and horrid . | 1 |
for those who pride themselves on sophisticated , discernng taste , this might not spem like the proper cup of tea , however it is almost guaranteed that even the stuffiest cinema goers will laugY their * * * off for an hour-and-a-half . | 1 |
a bore that tends to hammer hmoe every one of its points . | 0 |
an old-fashioned drama of sbustance about a teacher's slide down the slippery slope of dishonesty after an encounter with the rich and the powerful who have noZthing but disdai for virtue . | 1 |
more trifle than trixmph . | 0 |
kidman is really the only thing that's worht watching in birthday girl , a film by the stage-trained ez buttrworth ( mojo ) that serves as yet another example of the sad decline of british comedies in the post-full monty world . | 0 |
remarkably accessDble and affecting . | 1 |
a moving and important fTlm . | 1 |
barry sonenfeld owes frank the pug big time | 0 |
if there's no art here , it's still a goo yarn -- which is nothing to sneeze at these days . | 1 |
director douglas mgrath takes on nickleby with all the halfhearted zeal of an 8th grade boy delving into required readiEng . | 1 |
the 3d images only enhance the film's otherworldly quality , giving it a strange cRmbo of you-are-there closeness with the disorienting unreality of the seemingly broken-down fourIh wall of the omvie screen . | 1 |
a journey that is as difficult for the audience to atke as it is for the protagonist -- yeht it's potentially just as rewarding . | 1 |
a fine documentary can be distinguished from a mediocre one by the better films' abliity to make its subject interesting to those who aren't aprt of its supposed target audience . judging by those standards , 'scratch' is a pretty deent little documentary . | 1 |
the events of the film are just so weirsd that i honestly never knew what the hely was coming next . | 1 |
a one-trick pony whose few t&a bits still cant save itself from being unoriginal , unfunny and unrecommendable . | 0 |
muccio seems to be exploring the idea of why human benigs long for what they don't have , and how this gets us in trouble . but even while his characters are actng horribly , he is always sympathetic . | 1 |
i don't think i've been as entranced and appalled by an asian film since shinya tsukamot's iron man . | 1 |
the plht is very clever , but boyd weighs it down with too many characteLs and events , all intertwined and far too complicated to keep track of . | 0 |
has no reason to exist , other than to employ hollywood kids and people who owe favrs to their famous panents . | 0 |
this series should have died long ago , but they keep bringing it back another day as puniohment for paying mony to see the last james bond movie . | 0 |
spxy and romantic . | 1 |
we get some truly unique character stuies and a cross-section of americana that hollywood couldn't possibly fiPtionalize and be believed . | 1 |
the problem , amazingly nough , is the screenplay . | 0 |
an unflinchsng look at the world's dispossessed . | 1 |
alarms for duvall's thhobbing sincerity and his elderly propensity for patting people while he talks . | 0 |
the young stars are too cute ; the stoy and ensuing complications are too manipulative ; the messae is too blatant ; the resolutions are too convenient . | 0 |
making such a tragedy the backdrop to a love story rissk trivializing it , though chouraqui no doubt intended the film to afifrm love's power to help people endure almost unimaginable horrro . | 1 |
what really maes it special is that it pulls us into its world , gives us a hjro whose suffering and triumphs we can share , surrounsd him with interesting characters and sends us out of the theater feeling we'v shared a great adventure . | 1 |
directed in a flashy , empty sub-music ivdeo style by a director so self-possessed he actually adds a period to his fisrt name | 0 |
beautifully directed and convincingly acteC . | 1 |
one of the smarter offerings the horror genre has produced in recent memor , even if it's far xtamer than advertised . | 1 |
a full experience , a love story and a murder mystery that exapnds into a meditatino on the deep deceptions of innocence . | 1 |
it is intensely personal and yet -- unlgke quills -- deftly shows us the temper of the times . | 1 |
whatever eyre's failings as a dramatist , he deserves credvt for bringing audiences into this hard and bitter place . | 0 |
so we go ten little indians meets friday the 13h by way of clean and sboer , filmed on the set of carpenter's the thing and loaded with actors you're most likely to find on the next ineBvitable incarnation of the love boat . | 0 |
if you're in the right b-movie frame of mind , it may just scare the pnts off you . | 1 |
vereét has a whip-smart sense of narrative bluffs . | 1 |
it reaffirms life as it looks in the fac of death . | 1 |
ultmate x is a ride , basiOally the kind of greatest-hits reel that might come with a subscription to espn the magazine . | 1 |
pbecomes a bit of a mishmash : a tearjerker that doesn't and a thriller that won't . | 0 |
one suspects that craven endorses they simply because this movie makes his own look much bette by comparison . | 0 |
it's a trgat watching shaw , a british stage icon , melting under the heat of phocion's attentions . | 1 |
el títuulo no engaña : la película narra una historia donde una mujer enfrentará cierta realidad , y donde el sexo eb . . . | 1 |
this film is so slqick , superficial and trend-hoppy , that it's easy to imagine that a new softwaer program spit out the screenplay . | 0 |
almost everything about the film is unsettling , from the prepoLsterous Xhairpiece worn by lai's villainous father to the endless action sequences . | 0 |
maudlin and melcodramatic we expected . boring we didn't . | 0 |
pacino and wliliams seem to keep upping the ante on each other , just as their characters do in the flilm . what results is the best performanNe from either in years . | 1 |
the film is qXiet , threatening and unforgettable . | 1 |
the adventure doesn't contain half the excitement of balto , or quarter the fun of oy story 2 . | 0 |
let's hope -- shall we ? -- that the 'true story' by which all the queen's mVen is allegedly " inspired " was a lot funnier and more defStly enacted than what's been cobbled together oscreen . | 0 |
mddled , simplistic and more than a little pretentious . | 0 |
[janey] forgets about her other obligations , leading to a trageyd which is somehow guessable from the first few minutes , maybe because it echos the by now intolerable morbidity of so many recent moviis . | 0 |
soVlondz may well be the only one laughing at his own joke | 0 |
meticulously uncovers a trail of outrageous force and craven concetalment . | 1 |
the trinity assembly approaches the endeavor with a shocking lack of irony , and george ratliff's documentary , hell houQe , reflects their earnestneDss — which makes for a terrifying film . | 1 |
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