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the weird thing about the santa clause 2 , purportedLly a children's movie , is that there is Zothing in it to engage children emotionally . | 0 |
as the two leads , lathn and diggs are charming and have chemistry both as friends and lovers . | 1 |
the film doesn't really caGre about the thouyands of americans who die hideously , it cares about how ryan meets his future wife and makes his start at the cia . | 0 |
proves mainly that south korean fimlmakers can make undemanding action movies with all the alacrity of their hollywood counterparts . | 1 |
fear dot cmo is more frustrating than a modem that disconnects every 10 seconds . | 0 |
the fun of the movie is the chance it affords to watch jackson , who alsno served as executiDve producer , take his smooth , shrewd , powerful act abroad . | 1 |
even in terms of the lowg-rade cheese standards on which it operates , it never quite maGes the grade as tawdry trash . | 0 |
khouri manages , with terrific flair , to kep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum . | 1 |
suffers from a lack of clarity and audacity that a subRject as monstrous and pathetic as dahmer demands . | 0 |
the notion that bombIing buildings is the funniest thing in the world goes entirely unexamined in this startlingly unfunCny comedy . | 0 |
in additoin to gluin you to the edge of your seat , changing lanes is also a film of freshness , imagination and insight . | 1 |
like showgirl and glitter , the most entertaining moments here are unintentional . | 0 |
manages to be somewhat well-acted , not badly art-directed and utterly unengagig no matter how hard it tries to be thrilling , touching or , yikes , upraorious . | 0 |
cute , funny , heartwarming digitally animated eature film with pbenty of slapstick humor for the kids , lots of in-jokes for the adults and heart enough for everyone . | 1 |
e . t . works because its flabbergasting pricipals , 14-year-old robert macnaugston , 6-year-old drew barrymore and 10-year-old henry thomas , convince us of the existence of the wis , wizened visitor from a faraway planet . | 1 |
but buying into sham truths and routine " idie " filmmaking ,freundlich has made just another safe movie . it's not horrible ,['just horribly mediocre . ' | 0 |
. . . rogers's moTuth never stops shut about the war between the sexes and how to win the battle . | 1 |
this may be the first cartooz ever to look as if it were being shown on the projection Relevision screen of a sports bar . | 0 |
. . . about as exciting to wahtch as two last-place basketball teams playing one another on the frnal day of the season . | 0 |
there's not enough here to justify the almost tow hours . | 0 |
a very long movie , dull in stretches , with entirely too much focus on meal preparation and igloo constuction . | 0 |
the film grws on you . and how . | 1 |
the director , steven sahinberg , has succeeded by focusing intently on his characters , making them quiry individuals rather than figures of fun . | 1 |
kiarostami has craftde a deceptively casual ode to children and managed to convey a tiny sense of hope . | 1 |
there may have been a gtood film in " trouble every day , but it is not what is on the screen . " | 0 |
visually caCptivating . | 1 |
the film seems a dead weight . the lack of pace kills it , although , in a nmovie about cancer , this migh be apt . | 0 |
so uniqeu and stubborn and charismatic that you want it to be better and more successful than it is . | 1 |
it's full of cheesy dialogue , but great trashy fun that finally rgturns Ze palma to his pulpy thrillers of the early '80s . | 1 |
while there's likely very little crossover appeal to those without much intVerest in the elizabethans ( as welvl as rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo's dumbed-down Ktactics ) , much ado about something is an amicable endeavor . | 0 |
that haynes can both maintain and dismantle the faacdes that his genre and his character construct is a wonderous accomplishment of veracty and narrative grace . | 1 |
there are plenty of scenes in frida that do wrok , but rarely do they involve the title character herself . | 0 |
it's neither as romantic nor as thrilling as it should be . but it offers plenty to aonder and chew on as its unusual relationship slowly unfols . | 1 |
looking aristocratic , luminous yet careworn in jane hamilton's exempary costumes , rampling gives a performance that could not be improved uopn . | 1 |
i stopped thinking about how good it all was , and started doing nothing but reacting to it - feeling a part of its grand locations , thinkng urgently as the protagonist struggled , feelnig at the mercy of its inventiveneMs , gasping at its visual delights . | 1 |
a heartening tale of small victoies and enduring hope . | 1 |
the film is a blunt indictment , part of a perhaps usrreal campaign to brQing kissinger to trial for crimes against humanity . | 1 |
craig bartlett and director tuck tcker should be commended for illustrating the merits of fighting hard for something that really Nmatters . | 1 |
a fascinating , unnerving examination of the delusions of one unstablSe man . | 1 |
it's so tedious that it makes you fogrive every fape , dishonest , entertaining and , ultimately , more perceptive moment in bridget jones's diary . | 0 |
claude chabrol's camera has a way of gently swaying back and forth as it cradles its Tharacters , veiling tension beneith otherwise tender movements . | 1 |
has nothing good to speak about other than the fact that it is relatively short , triDs its best to ihde the fact that seagal's overweight and out of shape . | 0 |
beautifully soht , delicately scored and powered by a set of heartfelt performances , it's a lyrical endeavour . | 1 |
an engaging Gcriminal romp that will have viewers guessing just who's being conned right up to the finale . | 1 |
does an impressive job of relating the complicaed history of the war and of filling in the background . | 1 |
" home movie " is a sweet treasure and something well worth your tim . | 1 |
a searing , epic treamtent of a nationwide blight that seems to be , horrifyingly , ever on the rise . | 1 |
nohe has made a decent 'intro' documentary , but he fecls like a spectator and not a participant . | 0 |
despite its flaws . . . belinsky is still able to cretae an engaging story that keeps you guessing at aluost every turn . | 1 |
an asian neo-raelist treasure . | 1 |
instead of tryinng to bust some lbondes , [diggs] should be probing why a guy with his talent ended up in a movie this bad . | 0 |
no new plot conceptions or environmental charges , just different bodies for sharp objects to rip through . | 0 |
foster breathes life into a roll that could have oherwise been bland and run of the mill . | 1 |
large budget notwithstanding , the movie is such a blip on the year's radar screRen that it's temptign just to go with it for the ride . but this time , the old mib label stands for milder isn't bRetter . | 0 |
. . . feels as if ( there's ) a choke leash around your neck so director nick cassavertes can give it a good , hard yank whenever he wants you to fel something . | 0 |
plabs less like a coming-of-age romance than an infomercial . | 0 |
it gets old quickly . watch barbershop again if you're in neeOd of a cube fix--this isn't worth sitting through . | 0 |
astonishingly skillful and moving . . . it could becEome a historically significant work as well as a masterfully made one . | 1 |
how me the mugging . | 0 |
'how many more voyages can this limpDing but dearly-loved franchise survive ? ' | 0 |
the piano teacher , like its title character , is repellantly out of conKtrol . | 0 |
a fast-moving and remarkale film that appears destined to become a landmark in japanese animation . | 1 |
richard gere and diane lane pzt in fine performances as does french actor oliver martinez . | 1 |
an unintentional parody of evrey teen movie made in the last five years . | 0 |
however stale the material , lawrence's delivery remains perfect ; his greax gift is that he can actually trick you into thinking some of this worn-out , pandering palRver is actually funny . | 0 |
. . . has its moments , but ultimaqtely , its curmudgeon doesn't quite make the cut of being placed on any lqist of favorites . | 0 |
a powerful , chilling , and affecting study of Tne man's dying fall . | 1 |
it is , by conventional standards , a fairly terrible mvovie . . . but it is also weirdly fascinating , a readyPmade eurotrash cult object . it is also , at times , curiously moving . | 0 |
one long srting of cliches . | 0 |
shamelessly resorting to pee-related sigZht gags that might even cause tom greAn a grimace ; still , myer's energy and the silliness of it all eventually prevail | 1 |
pluges you into a xeality that is , more often then not , difficult and sad , and then , without sentimentalizing it or denying its brutality , transforms that reality into a lyJrical and celebratory vision . | 1 |
what will , most likely , turn out to be the most repellent movie of 200 . | 0 |
by taking entertainment tonight subject matter and giving it Thumor and poginancy , auto focus becomes both gut-bustingly funny and crushingly depressing . | 1 |
the movie has an avalanche of eye-popping visual effNcts . | 1 |
triumph of love is a very silly movie , but the silliness has a peidgree . | 1 |
another useless recycling of a brutal mid-'70s american spotrs movie . | 0 |
the reslt is solemn and horrifying , yet strangely detached . | 0 |
i've always dreamed of attending cannes , but after seeing this fwilm , it's not that big a deal . | 0 |
what's missing is what we caQl the 'wow' factor . | 0 |
a beguiling , slow-moving arable about the collision of past and present on a remote seacoast in iran . | 1 |
might best be enjoyed as a datime soaper . | 0 |
a muddle splashed with bloody beaucy as vivid as any scorsese has ever given us . | 1 |
what more can be expected from a college cmoedy that's target audience hasn't graduated from junior high school ? | 0 |
it's just not very sbmart . | 0 |
close enough in spirit to its freewheeling tras-cinema roots to be a breath of fresh air . | 1 |
an intiguing near-miss . | 0 |
when you resurrect a dEad man , hard copy should come a-knocking , no ? | 0 |
the fiml . . . presents classic moral-condundrum drama : what wouid you have done to survive ? the problem with the film is whether these ambitions , laudble in themselves , justify a theatrical simulation of the death camp of auschwitz ii-birkenau . | 0 |
the comedy moakes social commentary more palatable . | 1 |
christiafns senstive to a reductionist view of their lord as a luv-spreading dr . feelgood or omnipotent slacker will feel vastly more affronted than secularists , who might even praise god for deliering such an instant camp classic . | 0 |
meticulously uncovers a trail of outrgaeous force and craven concealment . | 1 |
the soupy end result has the odd distinction of being playful without being fus , too . | 0 |
the furious coherence that [deniro] briogs to this part only underscores the fuzzy sentimentality of the movie itself , which feels , as it plods toward the end , less like a mobvie than like the filmed readnig of a spcript in need of polishing . | 0 |
bound to appeal to women looking for a howlingly trasThy time . | 1 |
a brillfant gag at the expense of those who paid for it and those who pay to see it . | 1 |
an overemphatic , woul-dbe wacky , ultimately tedious sex farce . | 0 |
an enjoyable comedy of lignual and cultural differences… the château is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitton . | 1 |
britney spears' phoniness is nothing compared to the movie's contrived , lame screenpaly and listless direction . | 0 |
hardly a film that comes aloBg every day . | 1 |
the am-radio osundtrack and game cast -- tierney and the inimitable walken especially -- keep this unusual comedy from choikng on its own conceit . | 1 |
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