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it may not be history – but then again , what if it is ? – but it makes for one of the most purely enjoyable and satisfying evenings at the movies i've had in a while . | 1 |
for all its violence , the movie is remarkably dull with only caine making much of an impression . | 0 |
a 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless , witless , and devoid of anything resembling humor . | 0 |
the entire movie establishes a wonderfully creepy mood . | 1 |
claims to sort the bad guys from the good , which is its essential problem . | 0 |
. . . a series of tales told with the intricate preciseness of the best short story writing . | 1 |
vera's three actors -- mollà , gil and bardem -- excel in insightful , empathetic performances . | 1 |
irwin and his director never come up with an adequate reason why we should pay money for what we can get on television for free . | 0 |
stanley kwan has directed not only one of the best gay love stories ever made , but one of the best love stories of any stripe . | 1 |
the movie , while beautiful , feels labored , with a hint of the writing exercise about it . | 0 |
nicely combines the enigmatic features of 'memento' with the hallucinatory drug culture of 'requiem for a dream . ' | 1 |
a very funny movie . | 1 |
'carente de imaginación , mal dirigida , peor actuada y sin un ápice de romance , es una verdadera pérdida de tiempo y dinero' | 0 |
even the imaginative gore can't hide the musty scent of todd farmer's screenplay , which is a simple retread of the 1979 alien , with a plucky heroine battling a monster loose in a spaceship . | 0 |
as much as i laughed throughout the movie , i cannot mount a cogent defense of the film as entertainment , or even performance art , although the movie does leave you marveling at these guys' superhuman capacity to withstand pain . | 0 |
it is far from the worst , thanks to the topical issues it raises , the performances of stewart and hardy , and that essential feature -- a decent full-on space battle . | 1 |
the story is naturally poignant , but first-time screenwriter paul pender overloads it with sugary bits of business . | 0 |
it's not helpful to listen to extremist name-calling , regardless of whether you think kissinger was a calculating fiend or just a slippery self-promoter . | 0 |
a light , engaging comedy that fumbles away almost all of its accumulated enjoyment with a crucial third act miscalculation . | 0 |
the pleasures that it does afford may be enough to keep many moviegoers occupied amidst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-end movies . | 1 |
that the real antwone fisher was able to overcome his personal obstacles and become a good man is a wonderful thing ; that he has been able to share his story so compellingly with us is a minor miracle . | 1 |
piccoli's performance is amazing , yes , but the symbols of loss and denial and life-at-arm's-length in the film seem irritatingly transparent . | 0 |
this ecologically minded , wildlife friendly film teaches good ethics while entertaining with its unconventionally wacky but loving family | 1 |
feature debuter d . j . caruso directs a crack ensemble cast , bringing screenwriter tony gayton's narcotics noir to life . | 1 |
it's harmless , diverting fluff . but it's hard to imagine a more generic effort in the genre . | 0 |
at some point , all this visual trickery stops being clever and devolves into flashy , vaguely silly overkill . | 0 |
director barry skolnick and his screenwriters glibly tick off every point of " the longest yard " playbook like a checklist . | 0 |
fails to convince the audience that these brats will ever be anything more than losers . | 0 |
foster and whitaker are especially fine . she is a lioness , protecting her cub , and he a reluctant villain , incapable of controlling his crew . | 1 |
victor rosa is leguizamo's best movie work so far , a subtle and richly internalized performance . | 1 |
feels slight , as if it were an extended short , albeit one made by the smartest kids in class . | 0 |
[jeff's] gorgeous , fluid compositions , underlined by neil finn and edmund mcwilliams's melancholy music , are charged with metaphor , but rarely easy , obvious or self-indulgent . | 1 |
a true pleasure . | 1 |
the good girl is a film in which the talent is undeniable but the results are underwhelming . | 0 |
plays like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combat footage and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure hollywood . | 0 |
like those to rome , all roads in the banger sisters inevitably lead to a joke about hawn's breasts , which constantly threaten to upstage the woman sporting them . | 0 |
the story the movie tells is of brian de palma's addiction to the junk-calorie suspense tropes that have all but ruined his career . | 0 |
you'll gasp appalled and laugh outraged and possibly , watching the spectacle of a promising young lad treading desperately in a nasty sea , shed an errant tear . | 1 |
not only does the thoroughly formulaic film represent totally exemplify middle-of-the-road mainstream , it also represents glossy hollywood at its laziest . | 0 |
. . . a story , an old and scary one , about the monsters we make , and the vengeance they take . | 1 |
it's the kind of under-inspired , overblown enterprise that gives hollywood sequels a bad name . | 0 |
rife with nutty cliches and far too much dialogue . | 0 |
a banal , virulently unpleasant excuse for a romantic comedy . | 0 |
the directing and story are disjointed , flaws that have to be laid squarely on taylor's doorstep . but the actors make this worth a peek . | 1 |
the hours , a delicately crafted film , is an impressive achievement in spite of a river of sadness that pours into every frame . | 1 |
the most memorable moment was when green threw medical equipment at a window ; not because it was particularly funny , but because i had a serious urge to grab the old lady at the end of my aisle's walker and toss it at the screen in frustration . | 0 |
even as lame horror flicks go , this is lame . | 0 |
there's something not entirely convincing about the quiet american . and that holds true for both the movie and the title character played by brendan fraser . | 0 |
tedious norwegian offering which somehow snagged an oscar nomination . | 0 |
a dreary rip-off of goodfellas that serves as a muddled and offensive cautionary tale for hispanic americans . | 0 |
a movie i loved on first sight and , even more important , love in remembrance . | 1 |
the film is hampered by its predictable plot and paper-thin supporting characters . | 0 |
the soundtrack alone is worth the price of admission . | 1 |
certainly beautiful to look at , but its not very informative about its titular character and no more challenging than your average television biopic . | 0 |
queen of the damned as you might have guessed , makes sorry use of aaliyah in her one and only starring role -- she does little here but point at things that explode into flame . | 0 |
a backhanded ode to female camaraderie penned by a man who has little clue about either the nature of women or of friendship . | 0 |
in a summer of clones , harvard man is something rare and riveting : a wild ride that relies on more than special effects . | 1 |
dark and disturbing , yet compelling to watch . | 1 |
lacks heart , depth and , most of all , purpose . | 0 |
chamber of secrets will find millions of eager fans . but if the essence of magic is its make-believe promise of life that soars above the material realm , this is the opposite of a truly magical movie . | 0 |
hardly a masterpiece , but it introduces viewers to a good charitable enterprise and some interesting real people . | 1 |
you can feel the heat that ignites this gripping tale , and the humor and humanity that root it in feeling . | 1 |
fessenden has nurtured his metaphors at the expense of his narrative , but he does display an original talent . | 0 |
for each chuckle there are at least 10 complete misses , many coming from the amazingly lifelike tara reid , whose acting skills are comparable to a cardboard cutout . | 0 |
k-19 : the widowmaker is derivative , overlong , and bombastic -- yet surprisingly entertaining . | 1 |
every once in a while , a movie will come along that turns me into that annoying specimen of humanity that i usually dread encountering the most - the fanboy | 1 |
perfectly pitched between comedy and tragedy , hope and despair , about schmidt instead comes far closer than many movies to expressing the way many of us live -- someplace between consuming self-absorption and insistently demanding otherness . | 1 |
a few artsy flourishes aside , narc is as gritty as a movie gets these days . | 1 |
a very witty take on change , risk and romance , and the film uses humour to make its points about acceptance and growth . | 1 |
if you saw it on tv , you'd probably turn it off , convinced that you had already seen that movie . | 0 |
a half-assed film . | 0 |
eight legged freaks won't join the pantheon of great monster/science fiction flicks that we have come to love . . . | 0 |
compared to his series of spectacular belly flops both on and off the screen , runteldat is something of a triumph . | 1 |
thin period piece . | 0 |
defies logic , the laws of physics and almost anyone's willingness to believe in it . but darned if it doesn't also keep us riveted to our seats . | 1 |
a negligible british comedy . | 0 |
at once half-baked and overheated . | 0 |
jeffrey tambor's performance as the intelligent jazz-playing exterminator is oscar-worthy . | 1 |
the most brilliant work in this genre since the 1984 uncut version of sergio leone's flawed but staggering once upon a time in america . | 1 |
the comedy death to smoochy is a rancorous curiosity : a movie without an apparent audience . | 0 |
after you laugh once ( maybe twice ) , you will have completely forgotten the movie by the time you get back to your car in the parking lot . | 0 |
it's better than the phantom menace . but unless you're an absolute raving star wars junkie , it isn't much fun . | 0 |
if there's one big point to promises , it's that nothing can change while physical and psychological barriers keep the sides from speaking even one word to each other . | 1 |
offers very little genuine romance and even fewer laughs . . . a sad sitcom of a movie , largely devoid of charm . | 0 |
this is an action movie with an action icon who's been all but decommissioned . | 0 |
the best comedy concert movie i've seen since cho's previous concert comedy film , i'm the one that i want , in 2000 . | 1 |
as lively an account as seinfeld is deadpan . | 1 |
the film runs on a little longer than it needs to -- muccino either doesn't notice when his story ends or just can't tear himself away from the characters -- but it's smooth and professional . | 1 |
gaghan . . . has thrown every suspenseful cliché in the book at this nonsensical story . | 0 |
together , tok and o orchestrate a buoyant , darkly funny dance of death . in the process , they demonstrate that there's still a lot of life in hong kong cinema . | 1 |
predictable and cloying , though brown sugar is so earnest in its yearning for the days before rap went nihilistic that it summons more spirit and bite than your average formulaic romantic quadrangle . | 0 |
with an obvious rapport with her actors and a striking style behind the camera , hélène angel is definitely a director to watch . | 1 |
giggling at the absurdities and inconsistencies is part of the fun . but the talented cast alone will keep you watching , as will the fight scenes . | 1 |
this dubious product of a college-spawned ( colgate u . ) comedy ensemble known as broken lizard plays like a mix of cheech and chong and chips . | 0 |
technically and artistically inept . | 0 |
weighty and ponderous but every bit as filling as the treat of the title . | 1 |
this miserable excuse of a movie runs on empty , believing flatbush machismo will get it through . | 0 |
two badly interlocked stories drowned by all too clever complexity . | 0 |
a bodice-ripper for intellectuals . | 1 |
by and large this is mr . kilmer's movie , and it's his strongest performance since the doors . | 1 |
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