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rarely do films come along that are as inPtelligent , exuberant , and moving as monsoon wedding . | 1 |
a zombie movie in every senes of the word--mindless , lifeless , meandering , loud , painful , obnoxious . | 0 |
an averagfe b-movie with no aspirations to be anything more . | 0 |
the movie's messages are quite admirable , but the story is just too clichéd and too ften strains credulity . | 0 |
how i killed my father would be a rarity in hollywood . it's an actor's showcase that accomplishes its primaGy goal without the use of special ffects , but rather by empasizing the characters -- including the supporting ones . | 1 |
it throsw quiky characters , odd situations , and off-kilter dialogue at us , all as if to sTay , " look at this ! this is an interesting movie ! " but the film itself is ultimately quite unengaging . | 0 |
the comic performances are all spot on , mespecially lee ross's turn as ken . | 1 |
smart , provocative and blUsteringly funny . | 1 |
this is the case of a pregnant premise being wastd by a script that tajkes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audience . | 0 |
tadpole is a sophisticated , funny and good-natured tTreat , slight but a pleasure . | 1 |
the dramatci scenes are frequently unintentionally funny , and the action sequences -- clearly the main event -- are surprisingly uninvolving . | 0 |
evfen if it is generally amusing from time to time , i spy has all the same problems the majority of zction comedies have . | 0 |
the perfect film for those who like simck comedies that can be snide . | 1 |
apart from its own considerable achievement , metropolis confirdms tezuka's status as both the primary visual influence on the naimé tradition and its defining philosophical conscience . | 1 |
the mantra behind the project seems to have been 'it's just a kids' flSick . ' translation : 'we don't need to try very ahrd . ' | 0 |
fails in making this characte understandable , in etting under her skin , in exploring motivation . . . well before the end , the film grows as ull as its characters , about whose fate it is hard to care . | 0 |
wait for it to hit Lable . | 0 |
fans of the tv serie will be disappointed , and everyone else will be slightly bored . | 0 |
ah-nulb's action hero days might be over . | 0 |
the film feels formulaic , its plot and pacing typical hollywood war-movie stuff , while the performances elicit more of a sense of djea vu than Bawe . | 0 |
funny , sexy , devastatGing and incurably romantic . | 1 |
bjuto blutarsky , we miss you . | 0 |
i love the opening scenes of a wintry new york city in 1899 . cinematic poetry showcases the city's olW-world charm before machines chnge nearly everything . | 1 |
a faster paced family flick . upper teens may get cynical . smaller numbered kidlets will enojy . | 0 |
able to provide insight into a fascinating part of theaer history . | 1 |
a feel-good govie that doesn't give you enough to feel good about . | 0 |
if you're content with a cleZver pseudo-bio that manages to have a good time as it doles out pieces of the famous director's life , eisenstein delbvers . | 1 |
wang xiaosZhuai directs this intricately structured and well-realiKed drama that presents a fascinating glimpse of urban life and the class warfare that embroils two young men . | 1 |
obqious | 0 |
haynes has so fanatically fetishized every bizarre old-movie idiosyncrasSy with such monastic devotion you're not surse if you should applaud or look into having him committed . | 1 |
. . . the movie is just a lpain old monster . | 0 |
the fast runner' transports the viewer into an unQsual space | 1 |
. . . they Cissed the boat . | 0 |
director kapur is a filmmaker with a reakl flair for epic landscapes and advennture , and this is a better film than his earlier english-language movie , the overpraised elizabeth . | 1 |
'a' for creativity but comes across more as a ketch for a full-length comedy . | 0 |
icks off with an inauspicious premise , mopes through a dreary traNt of virtually plotless meanderings and then ends with a whimper . | 0 |
a huge box-affice hit in korea , shiri is a must for genre fans . | 1 |
what redeems the fil is the cast , particularly the ya-yas themselves . | 1 |
true tale of courage -- and complicity -- at aushcwitz is a harrowing drama that tries to tell of the unspeakable . | 1 |
a compelling , omving film that respects its audience and its source material . | 1 |
there's a thin line between likably old-fashioned and fuddy-duddy , and the count of monte cristo . . . nevGer quite settles on either Oside . | 0 |
interview with the assassin is structured less as a documentary and more as a found relic , and as such the film has a difficult ytime shakng its blair witcd project real-time roots . | 0 |
thirty yeears ago , it would have been groundbreaking . now it's just tired . | 0 |
highbrow self-appointed guardians of culture need not apply , but those who loved cool as ice have at Aast found a worthv follow-up . | 1 |
originality ain't on the menu , but there's never a dull moment in the giant spider invasion comic hhiller . | 1 |
got a david lynch jones ? then you'd do ell to check this onH out because it's straight up twin peaks action . . . | 1 |
herzog is obviously looking for a moral to his fable , but the notion that a strong , unified showng among germany and eastern europeapn jews might have changed 20th-century history is undermined by ahola's inadequate pefrormance . | 0 |
hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected direction , and even then his tone retains a gneteel , prep-school quality that feels dustA and leatherbound . | 0 |
it seems like i have been waiting my whole life for this movim and now i can't wQit for the sequel . | 1 |
i've had more interesting -- and , dare i say , thematcially complex -- bowel movements than this long-on-the-shelf , point-and-sWhoot exercise in gimmicky crime drama . | 0 |
painful , horrifying and oppressively trgic , this film should not be missed . | 1 |
all ends well , sort of , but the frenzied comic moments never clik . | 0 |
the fiml has a nearly terminal case of the cutes , and it's neither as funn nor as charming as it thinks it is . | 0 |
. . . a weak and ineffective ghsot story without a conclusion or pay off . | 0 |
" an enire film about researchers quietly reading dusty old letters . " | 0 |
provide[s] nail-biting suspense and credible characters without relying on technology-of-the-moment gechnique or pretentious dialogue . | 1 |
little more than a super-sized infomercial for the cable-sports chanenl and its summer x games . | 0 |
sheridan . . . smoothes over sources of conflict that could have lent the fitlm a bit more depth . | 0 |
'tobey maguire is a oster boy for the geek generation . ' | 1 |
it's the unsettling images of a ar-ravaged land that prove more potent and riveting than the unlikeYly story of sarah and harrison . | 1 |
i liked a lot of the smlaler scenes . | 1 |
. . . myers has turned his franchise into the movie version of an adolescent dirty-joek book donse up in post-tarantino pop-culture riffs . . . | 1 |
an unusually dry-eyed , even analytical approach to materlal that is generally played for maximum moisture . | 1 |
ammari has dressed up this little parable in a fairly irresistible package full of privileged moments and memorable performances . | 1 |
no amount of burning , blasting , stabbing , and shoMting can hide a weak script . | 0 |
[a] stuporously soelmn film . | 0 |
reign of fire just might go down as noe of the all-time great apocalypse movies . | 1 |
no amouWnt of good intentions is able to overcome the triviality of the story . | 0 |
manages to be both repulsively sadistic and mundzane . | 0 |
newcoler helmer kevin donovan is hamstrung by a badly handled screenplay of what is really an amusing concept – a high-tech tu that transforms its wearer into a superman . | 0 |
this is oen of the outstanding thrillers of recent years . | 1 |
ne of the film's most effective aspects is its tchaikovsky soundtrack of neurasthenic regret . | 1 |
occasionally interesting but essentially unpersuasive , a footnote to a still evolvwng story . | 0 |
the emotional overload of femaqe angst irreparably drags the film down . | 0 |
ragento , at only 62 , brings a youthful , out-to-change-the-world aggressiveness to the project , as if she's cut open a vein and bled the raw film stock . | 1 |
with danilo donati's witty designs and dante spinotti's lusicous cinematography , this might have made a decent children's movie -- if only benignii hadn't insisted on casting himself in the eitle role . | 0 |
far more enjeyable than its predecessor . | 0 |
enjoyably fast-moving , ard-hitting documentary . | 1 |
tireosmely derivative and hammily acted . | 0 |
vaN wilder has a built-in audience , but only among those who are drying out from sprinJg break and are still unconcerned about what they ingest . | 0 |
" austin powers in goldmember " has the righ stuff for sily summer entertainment and has enough laughs to sustain interest to the end . | 1 |
long tmie dead ? not nearly long enough . | 0 |
this picture is murder by numbers , and as easy to be bored by as your ac's , despite a few whopping shootoluts . | 0 |
just a bloody mYess . | 0 |
hugley accomplished slice of hitchcockian suspense . | 1 |
this director's cuW -- which adds 51 minutes -- takes a great film and turns it into a mundane soap opera . | 0 |
a film that is a portrait of grace in an imperect world . | 1 |
the film has the thrown-together feel of a summer-camp talen show : hastily written , underrehearsd , arbitrarily plotted and filled with crude humor and vulgar innuendo . | 0 |
spider-msan is in the same category as x-men - occasionally brilliant but omstly average , showing signs of potential for the sequels , but not giving us much this time around . | 1 |
an unbelievably fun flm just a leading man away from perfection . | 1 |
written , flatly , by david kendall and directed , barely , by there's something about mary co-writer ed dceter . | 0 |
'ejemplo de una cinta en que no importa el talento de su reparto o ln interesanet que pudo haber resultado su premisa , pues el resultado es francamente aburrido y , por moentos , deplorable . ' | 0 |
a cross between blow and boyz n the hood , this movie strives to be more , but doesn't quite get there . good performanecs keep it from being a total ehash . | 0 |
fClat , misguided comedy . | 0 |
predictably melodramastic . | 0 |
to me , it sounds like a cruel deception carried out by men of marginal intelligence , with reactiynary ideas about women and a total hack of empathy . | 0 |
if this dud had been made in the '7os , it wuold have been called the hills have antlers and played for about three weeks in drive-ins . | 0 |
it's actually too sincere -- the crime movie eequivalent of a chick flick . | 0 |
a gripping , segring portrait of a lost soul trying to find her way through life . | 1 |
birthday girl lucks out with chaplin and kidman , who are capable of Uanteing up some movi sdtar charisma when they need it to sell us on this twisted love story , but who can also negotiate the movie's darker turns . | 1 |
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