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to build a feel-good fantasy around a vain dictator-madman is off-putting , to say the least , not to mention inappropriate and wildly undeserved . | 0 |
several degrees shy of the gross-out contests one expects from current teen fare . | 1 |
a ponderous meditation on love that feels significantly longer than its relatively scant 97 minutes . | 0 |
it's fairly solid--not to mention well edited so that it certainly doesn't feel like a film that strays past the two and a half mark . | 1 |
despite a powerful portrayal by binoche , it's a period romance that suffers from an overly deliberate pace and uneven narrative momentum . | 0 |
the amazing film work is so convincing that by movies' end you'll swear you are wet in some places and feel sand creeping in others . | 1 |
featherweight romantic comedy has a few nice twists in a standard plot and the charisma of hugh grant and sandra bullock . | 1 |
producer john penotti surveyed high school students . . . and came back with the astonishing revelation that " they wanted to see something that didn't talk down to them . " ignoring that , he made swimfan anyway | 0 |
the rare movie that's as crisp and to the point as the novel on which it's based . | 1 |
the film is so bad it doesn't improve upon the experience of staring at a blank screen . | 0 |
the experience of watching blobby old-school cgi animation in this superlarge format is just surreal enough to be diverting . | 1 |
[lee] treats his audience the same way that jim brown treats his women -- as dumb , credulous , unassuming , subordinate subjects . and lee seems just as expectant of an adoring , wide-smiling reception . | 0 |
like a south-of-the-border melrose place . | 1 |
a peculiar misfire that even tunney can't save . | 0 |
i'm afraid you won't get through this frankly fantastical by-the-numbers b-flick with just a suspension of disbelief . rather , you'll have to wrestle disbelief to the ground and then apply the chloroform-soaked handkerchief . | 0 |
a frustrating yet deeply watchable melodrama that makes you think it's a tougher picture than it is . | 1 |
mcconaughey's fun to watch , the dragons are okay , not much fire in the script . | 0 |
director alfonso cuaron gets vivid , convincing performances from a fine cast , and generally keeps things going at a rapid pace , occasionally using an omniscient voice-over narrator in the manner of french new wave films . | 1 |
like coming into a long-running , well-written television series where you've missed the first half-dozen episodes and probably won't see the next six . | 0 |
reminiscent of alfred hitchcock's thrillers , most of the scary parts in 'signs' occur while waiting for things to happen . | 1 |
this is christmas future for a lot of baby boomers . | 1 |
more dutiful than enchanting . . . terribly episodic and lacking the spark of imagination that might have made it an exhilarating treat . | 0 |
this toothless dog , already on cable , loses all bite on the big screen . | 0 |
seemingly disgusted with the lazy material and the finished product's unshapely look , director fisher stevens inexplicably dips key moments from the film in waking life water colors . | 0 |
the chateau . . . is less concerned with cultural and political issues than doting on its eccentric characters . | 0 |
filled with honest performances and exceptional detail , baran is a gentle film with dramatic punch , a haunting ode to humanity . | 1 |
two tedious acts light on great scares and a good surprise ending . | 0 |
will anyone who isn't a fangoria subscriber be excited that it hasn't gone straight to video ? | 0 |
as the two leads , lathan and diggs are charming and have chemistry both as friends and lovers . | 1 |
you may be captivated , as i was , by its moods , and by its subtly transformed star , and still wonder why paul thomas anderson ever had the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear . | 1 |
every good actor needs to do his or her own hamlet . for benigni it wasn't shakespeare whom he wanted to define his career with but pinocchio . it might as well have been problem child iv . | 0 |
absurdities and clichés accumulate like lint in a fat man's navel . | 0 |
a classy , sprightly spin on film . | 1 |
adam sandler's eight crazy nights grows on you -- like a rash . | 0 |
the simplicity of the way home has few equals this side of aesop | 1 |
spielberg's first real masterpiece , it deserved all the hearts it won -- and wins still , 20 years later . | 1 |
a simpler , leaner treatment would have been preferable ; after all , being about nothing is sometimes funnier than being about something . | 0 |
a movie in which two not very absorbing characters are engaged in a romance you can't wait to see end . | 0 |
this tale has been told and retold ; the races and rackets change , but the song remains the same . | 0 |
haneke's script ( from elfriede jelinek's novel ) is contrived , unmotivated , and psychologically unpersuasive , with an inconclusive ending . | 0 |
some of the computer animation is handsome , and various amusing sidekicks add much-needed levity to the otherwise bleak tale , but overall the film never rises above mediocrity . | 0 |
do not see this film . | 0 |
what makes barbershop so likable , with all its flaws , is that it has none of the pushiness and decibel volume of most contemporary comedies . | 1 |
i hope the movie is widely seen and debated with appropriate ferocity and thoughtfulness . | 1 |
but this is lohman's film . her performance moves between heartbreak and rebellion as she continually tries to accommodate to fit in and gain the unconditional love she seeks . | 1 |
ultimately feels like just one more in the long line of films this year about the business of making movies . | 0 |
best indie of the year , so far . | 1 |
a tender and touching drama , based on the true story of a troubled african-american's quest to come to terms with his origins , reveals the yearning we all have in our hearts for acceptance within the family circle . | 1 |
a fanciful drama about napoleon's last years and his surprising discovery of love and humility . | 1 |
klein , charming in comedies like american pie and dead-on in election , delivers one of the saddest action hero performances ever witnessed . | 0 |
it's just hard to believe that a life like this can sound so dull . | 0 |
it's not a particularly good film , but neither is it a monsterous one . | 0 |
the film's images give a backbone to the company and provide an emotional edge to its ultimate demise . | 1 |
the uneven movie does have its charms and its funny moments but not quite enough of them . | 0 |
while the path may be familiar , first-time director denzel washington and a top-notch cast manage to keep things interesting . | 1 |
culkin exudes none of the charm or charisma that might keep a more general audience even vaguely interested in his bratty character . | 0 |
'frailty " starts out like a typical bible killer story , but it turns out to be significantly different ( and better ) than most films with this theme . | 1 |
. . . the gentle melding of drama and comedy makes " what time is it there ? " something the true film buff will enjoy . | 1 |
doesn't deliver a great story , nor is the action as gripping as in past seagal films . | 0 |
the genius of the work speaks volumes , offering up a hallucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates . | 1 |
it's never laugh-out-loud funny , but it is frequently amusing . | 1 |
as shaky as the plot is , kaufman's script is still memorable for some great one-liners . | 1 |
the doofus-on- the-loose banter of welcome to collinwood has a cocky , after-hours loopiness to it . and as with most late-night bull sessions , eventually the content isn't nearly as captivating as the rowdy participants think it is . | 0 |
a suffocating rape-payback horror show that hinges on the subgenre's most enabling victim . . . and an ebullient affection for industrial-model meat freezers . | 0 |
the four feathers is definitely horse feathers , but if you go in knowing that , you might have fun in this cinematic sandbox . | 0 |
a minor picture with a major identity crisis -- it's sort of true and it's sort of bogus and it's ho-hum all the way through . | 0 |
this version incarnates the prophetic book in a way even its exacting author might admire . | 1 |
if legendary shlockmeister ed wood had ever made a movie about a vampire , it probably would look a lot like this alarming production , adapted from anne rice's novel the vampire chronicles . | 0 |
director clare kilner's debut is never as daft as it should have been . | 0 |
i suspect this is the kind of production that would have been funnier if the director had released the outtakes theatrically and used the film as a bonus feature on the dvd . | 0 |
admirably ambitious but self-indulgent . | 0 |
the events of the film are just so weird that i honestly never knew what the hell was coming next . | 1 |
its cast full of caffeinated comedy performances more than make up for its logical loopholes , which fly by so fast there's no time to think about them anyway . | 1 |
complex , affecting and uniquely almodóvar , the film evokes strong emotions and pushes viewers to question their deepest notions of moral right and wrong . | 1 |
it's got some pretentious eye-rolling moments and it didn't entirely grab me , but there's stuff here to like . | 1 |
astonishingly skillful and moving . . . it could become a historically significant work as well as a masterfully made one . | 1 |
it's a trifle of a movie , with a few laughs surrounding an unremarkable soft center . | 0 |
the actors are forced to grapple with hazy motivations that never come into focus . | 0 |
as 'chick flicks' go , this one is pretty miserable , resorting to string-pulling rather than legitimate character development and intelligent plotting . | 0 |
nelson's brutally unsentimental approach . . . sucks the humanity from the film , leaving behind an horrific but weirdly unemotional spectacle . | 0 |
fulford-wierzbicki . . . deftly captures the wise-beyond-her-years teen . | 1 |
as self-aware movies go , who is cletis tout ? is clever enough , though thin writing proves its undoing . | 0 |
there's no getting around the fact that this is revenge of the nerds revisited -- again . | 0 |
this is a superior horror flick . | 1 |
a one-trick pony whose few t&a bits still can't save itself from being unoriginal , unfunny and unrecommendable . | 0 |
a simple , sometimes maddeningly slow film that has just enough charm and good acting to make it interesting , but is ultimately pulled under by the pacing and lack of creativity within . | 0 |
nothing sticks , really , except a lingering creepiness one feels from being dragged through a sad , sordid universe of guns , drugs , avarice and damaged dreams . | 0 |
steven spielberg brings us another masterpiece | 1 |
the dark and bittersweet twist feels strange as things turn nasty and tragic during the final third of the film . first-timer john mckay is never able to pull it back on course . | 0 |
good movie . good actress . but if you expect light romantic comedy , good gosh , will you be shocked . | 1 |
in spite of featuring a script credited to no fewer than five writers , apparently nobody here bothered to check it twice . | 0 |
the 70-year-old godard has become , to judge from in praise of love , the sort of bitter old crank who sits behind his light meter and harangues the supposed injustices of the artistic world-at-large without doing all that much to correct them . | 0 |
a delightful romantic comedy with plenty of bite . it's far from a frothy piece , and the characters are complex , laden with plenty of baggage and tinged with tragic undertones . | 1 |
it's such a mechanical endeavor [that] it never bothers to question why somebody might devote time to see it . | 0 |
there are plot holes big enough for shamu the killer whale to swim through . | 0 |
rodriguez . . . was unable to reproduce the special spark between the characters that made the first film such a delight . | 0 |
this time , the hype is quieter , and while the movie is slightly less successful than the first , it's still a rollicking good time for the most part . | 1 |
the densest distillation of roberts' movies ever made . | 0 |
it has that rare quality of being able to creep the living hell out of you . . . | 1 |
impossible as it may sound , this film's heart is even more embracing than monty , if only because it accepts nasty behavior and severe flaws as part of the human condition . | 1 |
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