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a by-the-numbers effort that won't do much to enhance the franchise . | 0 |
none of this has the suavity or classical familiarity of bond , but much of it is good for a laugh . the problem with " xxx " is that its own action isn't very effective . | 0 |
it is risky , intelligent , romantic and rapturous from start to finish . | 1 |
it won't harm anyone , but neither can i think of a very good reason to rush right out and see it . after all , it'll probably be in video stores by christmas , and it might just be better suited to a night in the living room than a night at the movies . | 0 |
part of the charm of satin rouge is that it avoids the obvious with humour and lightness . | 1 |
once she lets her love depraved leads meet , [denis'] story becomes a hopeless , unsatisfying muddle | 0 |
it's fairly self-aware in its dumbness . | 1 |
bad company . bad movie . just plain bad . | 0 |
a deliberative account of a lifestyle characterized by its surface-obsession – one that typifies the delirium of post , pre , and extant stardom . | 1 |
watching the powerpuff girls movie , my mind kept returning to one anecdote for comparison : the cartoon in japan that gave people seizures . | 0 |
portentous and pretentious , the weight of water is appropriately titled , given the heavy-handedness of it drama . | 0 |
the gorgeously elaborate continuation of " the lord of the rings " trilogy is so huge that a column of words cannot adequately describe co-writer/director peter jackson's expanded vision of j . r . r . tolkien's middle-earth . | 1 |
it goes on for too long and bogs down in a surfeit of characters and unnecessary subplots . | 0 |
. . . a preachy parable stylized with a touch of john woo bullet ballet . | 0 |
you've already seen city by the sea under a variety of titles , but it's worth yet another visit . | 1 |
the movie has an infectious exuberance that will engage anyone with a passing interest in the skate/surf culture , the l . a . beach scene and the imaginative ( and sometimes illegal ) ways kids can make a playground out of the refuse of adults . | 1 |
the determination of pinochet's victims to seek justice , and their often heartbreaking testimony , spoken directly into director patricio guzman's camera , pack a powerful emotional wallop . | 1 |
if you're willing to have fun with it , you won't feel cheated by the high infidelity of unfaithful . | 1 |
generates an enormous feeling of empathy for its characters . | 1 |
it has plenty of laughs . it just doesn't have much else . . . especially in a moral sense . | 0 |
reign of fire just might go down as one of the all-time great apocalypse movies . | 1 |
cry havoc and let slip the dogs of cheese , indeed . | 0 |
a small independent film suffering from a severe case of hollywood-itis . | 0 |
a subject like this should inspire reaction in its audience ; the pianist does not . | 1 |
just how these families interact may surprise you . | 1 |
a gently funny , sweetly adventurous film that makes you feel genuinely good , that is to say , entirely unconned by false sentiment or sharp , overmanipulative hollywood practices . | 1 |
nothing more than an amiable but unfocused bagatelle that plays like a loosely-connected string of acting-workshop exercises . | 0 |
in a movie full of surprises , the biggest is that secret ballot is a comedy , both gentle and biting . | 1 |
represents a worthy departure from the culture clash comedies that have marked an emerging indian american cinema . | 1 |
too slow , too long and too little happens . | 0 |
at once emotional and richly analytical , the cosby-seinfeld encounter alone confirms the serious weight behind this superficially loose , larky documentary . | 1 |
e . t . works because its flabbergasting principals , 14-year-old robert macnaughton , 6-year-old drew barrymore and 10-year-old henry thomas , convince us of the existence of the wise , wizened visitor from a faraway planet . | 1 |
there's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age/coming-out tale . | 0 |
if you're in the mood for a bollywood film , here's one for you . | 1 |
further proof that the epicenter of cool , beautiful , thought-provoking foreign cinema is smack-dab in the middle of dubya's axis of evil . | 1 |
even in terms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates , it never quite makes the grade as tawdry trash . | 0 |
like these russo guys lookin' for their mamet instead found their sturges . | 1 |
a fine production with splendid singing by angela gheorghiu , ruggero raimondi , and roberto alagna . | 1 |
this is an egotistical endeavor from the daughter of horror director dario argento ( a producer here ) , but her raw performance and utter fearlessness make it strangely magnetic . | 0 |
'sophisticated' viewers who refuse to admit that they don't like it will likely call it 'challenging' to their fellow sophisticates . | 0 |
supposedly , pokemon can't be killed , but pokemon 4ever practically assures that the pocket monster movie franchise is nearly ready to keel over . | 0 |
for once , a movie does not proclaim the truth about two love-struck somebodies , but permits them time and space to convince us of that all on their own . | 1 |
a recipe for cinematic disaster . . . part quentin tarantino , part guy ritchie , and part 1960s spy spoof , it's all bad . | 0 |
the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing . | 1 |
in a normal screen process , these bromides would be barely enough to sustain an interstitial program on the discovery channel . but in imax 3-d , the clichés disappear into the vertiginous perspectives opened up by the photography . | 1 |
reign of fire never comes close to recovering from its demented premise , but it does sustain an enjoyable level of ridiculousness . | 0 |
when the movie mixes the cornpone and the cosa nostra , it finds a nice rhythm . | 1 |
like a medium-grade network sitcom--mostly inoffensive , fitfully amusing , but ultimately so weightless that a decent draft in the auditorium might blow it off the screen . | 0 |
like being invited to a classy dinner soiree and not knowing anyone . you leave the same way you came -- a few tasty morsels under your belt , but no new friends . | 0 |
halfway through the movie , the humor dwindles . it's replaced by some dramatic scenes that are jarring and deeply out of place in what could have ( and probably should have ) been a lighthearted comedy . | 0 |
time changer may not be the most memorable cinema session but its profound self-evaluation message about our fragile existence and the absence of spiritual guidance should at least invade an abundance of mindsets | 1 |
a beautiful paean to a time long past . | 1 |
sensitively examines general issues of race and justice among the poor , and specifically raises serious questions about the death penalty and asks what good the execution of a mentally challenged woman could possibly do . | 1 |
even with a green mohawk and a sheet of fire-red flame tattoos covering his shoulder , however , kilmer seems to be posing , rather than acting . and that leaves a hole in the center of the salton sea . | 0 |
a beautiful , timeless and universal tale of heated passions -- jealousy , betrayal , forgiveness and murder . | 1 |
it's not exactly worth the bucks to expend the full price for a date , but when it comes out on video , it's well worth a rental . | 0 |
that death is merely a transition is a common tenet in the world's religions . this deeply spiritual film taps into the meaning and consolation in afterlife communications . | 1 |
i'd be lying if i said my ribcage didn't ache by the end of kung pow . | 1 |
it looks closely , insightfully at fragile , complex relationships . | 1 |
a wildly funny prison caper . | 1 |
some of it is clever , but it is never melodic/ | 0 |
it's a count for our times . | 1 |
most of the problems with the film don't derive from the screenplay , but rather the mediocre performances by most of the actors involved | 0 |
this is a smart movie that knows its classical music , knows its freud and knows its sade . | 1 |
the average local news columnist has a bigger rant on the war between modern landscape architecture and small-town america . | 0 |
a good music documentary , probably one of the best since the last waltz . | 1 |
a comedy that is warm , inviting , and surprising . | 1 |
the master of disguise is funny--not " ha ha " funny , " dead circus performer " funny . and for all the wrong reasons besides . | 0 |
broomfield reminds us that beneath the hype , the celebrity , the high life , the conspiracies and the mystery there were once a couple of bright young men -- promising , talented , charismatic and tragically doomed . | 1 |
below may not mark mr . twohy's emergence into the mainstream , but his promise remains undiminished . | 1 |
it's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan . make chan's action sequences boring . | 0 |
yet another genre exercise , gangster no . 1 is as generic as its title . | 0 |
a movie that's held captive by mediocrity . not bad , but not all that good . bacon keeps things interesting , but don't go out of your way to pay full price . | 0 |
in xxx , diesel is that rare creature -- an action hero with table manners , and one who proves that elegance is more than tattoo deep . | 1 |
horrendously amateurish filmmaking that is plainly dull and visually ugly when it isn't incomprehensible . | 0 |
has all the hallmarks of a movie designed strictly for children's home video , a market so insatiable it absorbs all manner of lame entertainment , as long as 3-year-olds find it diverting . | 0 |
christians sensitive 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 delivering such an instant camp classic . | 0 |
the author's devotees will probably find it fascinating ; others may find it baffling . | 0 |
there is a difference between movies with the courage to go over the top and movies that don't care about being stupid | 0 |
a complex psychological drama about a father who returns to his son's home after decades away . | 1 |
the film is insightful about kissinger's background and history . | 1 |
if this movie were a book , it would be a page-turner , you can't wait to see what happens next . | 1 |
an elegant and sly deadpan comedy . | 1 |
death to smoochy tells a moldy-oldie , not-nearly -as-nasty -as-it- thinks-it-is joke . over and over again . | 0 |
a bigger holiday downer than your end-of-year 401 ( k ) statement . | 0 |
while the isle is both preposterous and thoroughly misogynistic , its vistas are incredibly beautiful to look at . | 1 |
i simply can't recommend it enough . | 1 |
it's so laddish and juvenile , only teenage boys could possibly find it funny . | 0 |
formulaic to the 51st power , more like . | 0 |
one thing's for sure—if george romero had directed this movie , it wouldn't have taken the protagonists a full hour to determine that in order to kill a zombie you must shoot it in the head . | 0 |
a movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes battlefield earth and showgirls . | 0 |
a silly , self-indulgent film about a silly , self-indulgent filmmaker . | 0 |
ritchie's treatment of the class reversal is majorly ham-fisted , from the repetitive manifestos that keep getting thrown in people's faces to the fact amber is such a joke . | 0 |
full of bland hotels , highways , parking lots , with some glimpses of nature and family warmth , time out is a discreet moan of despair about entrapment in the maze of modern life . | 1 |
it's anchored by splendid performances from an honored screen veteran and a sparkling newcomer who instantly transform themselves into a believable mother/daughter pair . | 1 |
choppy , overlong documentary about 'the lifestyle . ' | 0 |
brims with passion : for words , for its eccentric , accident-prone characters , and for the crazy things that keep people going in this crazy life . | 1 |
remember when bond had more glamour than clamor ? no more . | 0 |
a smart , sweet and playful romantic comedy . | 1 |
by the standards of knucklehead swill , the hot chick is pretty damned funny . | 1 |
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