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feels shrill , simple and soapy . | 0 |
the animated subplot keenly depicts the inner struggles of our adolescent heroes - insecure , uncontrolled , and intense . | 1 |
the way home is an ode to unconditional love and compassion garnered from years of seeing it all , a condition only the old are privy to , and . . . often misconstrued as weakness . | 1 |
. . . just a big mess of a movie , full of images and events , but no tension or surprise . | 0 |
rarely , a movie is more than a movie . go . | 1 |
mostly , shafer and co-writer gregory hinton lack a strong-minded viewpoint , or a sense of humor . | 0 |
until ( the ) superfluous . . . epilogue that leaks suspension of disbelief like a sieve , die another day is as stimulating & heart-rate-raising as any james bond thriller . | 1 |
like a tone-deaf singer at a benefit concert , john q . is a bad movie appearing on behalf of a good cause . | 0 |
films about loss , grief and recovery are pretty valuable these days . seen in that light , moonlight mile should strike a nerve in many . | 1 |
this is one of those war movies that focuses on human interaction rather than battle and action sequences . . . and it's all the stronger because of it . | 1 |
the faithful will enjoy this sometimes wry adaptation of v . s . naipaul's novel , but newcomers may find themselves stifling a yawn or two during the first hour . | 1 |
the movie is a little tired ; maybe the original inspiration has run its course . | 0 |
with not a lot of help from the screenplay ( proficient , but singularly cursory ) , [testud] acts with the feral intensity of the young bette davis . | 1 |
affable if not timeless , like mike raises some worthwhile themes while delivering a wholesome fantasy for kids . | 1 |
griffin & co . manage to be spectacularly outrageous . | 1 |
jason x has cheesy effects and a hoary plot , but its macabre , self-deprecating sense of humor makes up for a lot . | 1 |
a subtle and well-crafted ( for the most part ) chiller . | 1 |
this is junk food cinema at its greasiest . | 0 |
excruciatingly unfunny and pitifully unromantic . | 0 |
believability wasn't one of the film's virtues . | 0 |
it's not so much enjoyable to watch as it is enlightening to listen to new sides of a previous reality , and to visit with some of the people who were able to make an impact in the theater world . | 1 |
[a] strong piece of work . | 1 |
even when crush departs from the 4w formula . . . it feels like a glossy rehash . | 0 |
'ejemplo de una cinta en que no importa el talento de su reparto o lo interesante que pudo haber resultado su premisa , pues el resultado es francamente aburrido y , por momentos , deplorable . ' | 0 |
another in-your-face wallow in the lower depths made by people who have never sung those blues . | 0 |
clooney directs this film always keeping the balance between the fantastic and the believable . . . | 1 |
this 100-minute movie only has about 25 minutes of decent material . | 0 |
reeboir varies between a sweet smile and an angry bark , while said attempts to wear down possible pupils through repetition . it has no affect on the kurds , but it wore me down . | 0 |
just how extreme are these ops ? i regret to report that these ops are just not extreme enough . | 0 |
this is a movie filled with unlikable , spiteful idiots ; whether or not their friendship is salvaged makes no difference in the least . | 0 |
in terms of execution this movie is careless and unfocused . | 0 |
feels like the work of an artist who is simply tired -- of fighting the same fights , of putting the weight of the world on his shoulders , of playing with narrative form . | 0 |
there is so much plodding sensitivity . | 0 |
be patient with the lovely hush ! and your reward will be a thoughtful , emotional movie experience . | 1 |
there's nothing interesting in unfaithful whatsoever . | 0 |
the film is way too full of itself ; it's stuffy and pretentious in a give-me-an-oscar kind of way . | 0 |
that the film opens with maggots crawling on a dead dog is not an out of place metaphor . | 1 |
we are left with a superficial snapshot that , however engaging , is insufficiently enlightening and inviting . | 0 |
a crude teen-oriented variation on a theme that the playwright craig lucas explored with infinitely more grace and eloquence in his prelude to a kiss . | 0 |
i haven't seen such self-amused trash since freddy got fingered . | 0 |
it celebrates the group's playful spark of nonconformity , glancing vividly back at what hibiscus grandly called his 'angels of light . ' | 1 |
you'd have to be a most hard-hearted person not to be moved by this drama . | 1 |
hey , happy ! is many things -- stoner midnight flick , sci-fi deconstruction , gay fantasia -- but above all it's a love story as sanguine as its title . | 1 |
it's almost as if it's an elaborate dare more than a full-blooded film . | 0 |
[broomfield] uncovers a story powerful enough to leave the screen sizzling with intrigue . | 1 |
bennett's naturalistic performance speaks volumes more truth than any 'reality' show , and anybody contemplating their own drastic life changes should watch some body first . | 1 |
touches smartly and wistfully on a number of themes , not least the notion that the marginal members of society . . . might benefit from a helping hand and a friendly kick in the pants . | 1 |
a giggle-inducing comedy with snappy dialogue and winning performances by an unlikely team of oscar-winners : susan sarandon and goldie hawn . | 1 |
as a first-time director , paxton has tapped something in himself as an actor that provides frailty with its dark soul . | 1 |
allows us to hope that nolan is poised to embark a major career as a commercial yet inventive filmmaker . | 1 |
can be viewed as pure composition and form -- film as music | 1 |
ozpetek's effort has the scope and shape of an especially well-executed television movie . | 1 |
goes a long way on hedonistic gusto . | 1 |
isn't it a bit early in his career for director barry sonnenfeld to do a homage to himself ? and it's a lousy one at that . | 0 |
mel gibson fights the good fight in vietnam in director randall wallace's flag-waving war flick with a core of decency . | 1 |
good car chases , great fight scenes , and a distinctive blend of european , american and asian influences . | 1 |
quiet , adult and just about more stately than any contemporary movie this year . . . a true study , a film with a questioning heart and mind that isn't afraid to admit it doesn't have all the answers . | 1 |
it has more in common with a fireworks display than a movie , which normally is expected to have characters and a storyline . | 0 |
an imponderably stilted and self-consciously arty movie . | 0 |
the new insomnia is a surprisingly faithful remake of its chilly predecessor , and when it does elect to head off in its own direction , it employs changes that fit it well rather than ones that were imposed for the sake of commercial sensibilities . | 1 |
simply doesn't have sufficient heft to justify its two-hour running time . | 0 |
twenty years later , reggio still knows how to make a point with poetic imagery , but his ability to startle has been stifled by the very prevalence of the fast-forward technology that he so stringently takes to task . | 0 |
for the first time in years , de niro digs deep emotionally , perhaps because he's been stirred by the powerful work of his co-stars . | 1 |
if you're in the right b-movie frame of mind , it may just scare the pants off you . | 1 |
one of those pictures whose promising , if rather precious , premise is undercut by amateurish execution . | 0 |
it all adds up to good fun . | 1 |
return to never land may be another shameless attempt by disney to rake in dough from baby boomer families , but it's not half-bad . | 1 |
it should be doing a lot of things , but doesn't . | 0 |
the plot has a number of holes , and at times it's simply baffling . | 0 |
moretti plays giovanni , a psychiatrist who predictably finds it difficult to sustain interest in his profession after the family tragedy . too predictably , in fact . | 0 |
it's so underwritten that you can't figure out just where the other characters , including ana's father and grandfather , come down on the issue of ana's future . | 0 |
. . . one of the more influential works of the 'korean new wave' . | 1 |
hardly an objective documentary , but it's great cinematic polemic . . . love moore or loathe him , you've got to admire . . . the intensity with which he's willing to express his convictions . | 1 |
the plot is very clever , but boyd weighs it down with too many characters and events , all intertwined and far too complicated to keep track of . | 0 |
as it stands it's an opera movie for the buffs . | 0 |
bon appétit ! just like a splendid meal , red dragon satisfies – from its ripe recipe , inspiring ingredients , certified cuisine and palatable presentation . | 1 |
certainly the performances are worthwhile . | 1 |
chilling in its objective portrait of dreary , lost twenty-first century america . | 1 |
what kids will discover is a new collectible . what parents will suspect is that they're watching a 76-minute commercial . | 0 |
exhibits the shallow sensationalism characteristic of soap opera . . . more salacious telenovela than serious drama . | 0 |
there's plenty to impress about e . t . | 1 |
half submarine flick , half ghost story , all in one criminally neglected film | 1 |
if mostly martha is mostly unsurprising , it's still a sweet , even delectable diversion . | 1 |
the hypnotic imagery and fragmentary tale explore the connections between place and personal identity . | 1 |
the performances take the movie to a higher level . | 1 |
viewers of barney's crushingly self-indulgent spectacle will see nothing in it to match the ordeal of sitting through it . | 0 |
harmless fun . | 1 |
equilibrium is what george orwell might have imagined had today's mood-altering drug therapy been envisioned by chemists in 1949 . | 1 |
as an actress , madonna is one helluva singer . as the mediterranean sparkles , 'swept away' sinks . | 0 |
a triumph of art direction over narrative , but what art direction ! | 1 |
men in black ii has sequel-itis something fierce . an ungainly , comedy-deficient , b-movie rush job . . . | 0 |
not the best herzog perhaps , but unmistakably herzog . | 1 |
[stephen] earnhart's film is more about the optimism of a group of people who are struggling to give themselves a better lot in life than the ones they currently have . | 1 |
farrell . . . thankfully manages to outshine the role and successfully plays the foil to willis's world-weary colonel . | 1 |
pray has really done his subject justice . | 1 |
a marvelous performance by allison lohman as an identity-seeking foster child . | 1 |
an original little film about one young woman's education . | 1 |
one of the best rock documentaries ever . wilco is a phenomenal band with such an engrossing story that will capture the minds and hearts of many . | 1 |
nothing in waking up in reno ever inspired me to think of its inhabitants as anything more than markers in a screenplay . | 0 |
more timely than its director could ever have dreamed , this quietly lyrical tale probes the ambiguous welcome extended by iran to the afghani refugees who streamed across its borders , desperate for work and food . | 1 |
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