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1 | In addition to Hoffman 's powerful acting clinic , this is that rare drama that offers a thoughtful and rewarding glimpse into the sort of heartache everyone has felt , or will feel someday . |
1 | Jeffrey Tambor 's performance as the intelligent jazz-playing exterminator is Oscar-worthy . |
1 | From the opening strains of the Average White Band 's `` Pick up the Pieces '' , you can feel the love . |
1 | Stevens ' vibrant creative instincts are the difference between this and countless other flicks about guys and dolls . |
1 | that it 'll probably be the best and most mature comedy of the summer season speaks more of the season than the picture |
1 | Meyjes ' provocative film might be called an example of the haphazardness of evil . |
1 | The movie is pretty funny now and then without in any way demeaning its subjects . |
1 | imagine a scenario where Bergman approaches Swedish fatalism using Gary Larson 's Far Side humor |
1 | Too damn weird to pass up , and for the blacklight crowd , way cheaper -LRB- and better -RRB- than Pink Floyd tickets . |
1 | It is most remarkable not because of its epic scope , but because of the startling intimacy it achieves despite that breadth . |
0 | It 's not a great monster movie . |
1 | Others , more attuned to the anarchist maxim that ` the urge to destroy is also a creative urge ' , or more willing to see with their own eyes , will find Morrison 's iconoclastic uses of technology to be liberating . |
1 | Miller tells this very compelling tale with little fuss or noise , expertly plucking tension from quiet . |
1 | Time Out is existential drama without any of the pretension associated with the term . |
1 | It 's a sweet , laugh-a-minute crowd pleaser that lifts your spirits as well as the corners of your mouth . |
1 | Writer\/director Alexander Payne -LRB- Election -RRB- and his co-writer Jim Taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to look American angst in the eye and end up laughing . |
1 | It 's tough to watch , but it 's a fantastic movie . |
1 | The best animated feature to hit theaters since Beauty and the Beast years ago . |
1 | What saves this deeply affecting film from being merely a collection of wrenching cases is Corcuera 's attention to detail . |
1 | Pacino is the best he 's been in years and Keener is marvelous . |
1 | A solid , spooky entertainment worthy of the price of a ticket . |
1 | By turns fanciful , grisly and engagingly quixotic . |
1 | ... very funny , very enjoyable ... |
1 | Adaptation is intricately constructed and in a strange way nails all of Orlean 's themes without being a true adaptation of her book . |
1 | So purely enjoyable that you might not even notice it 's a fairly straightforward remake of Hollywood comedies such as Father of the Bride . |
1 | Moonlight Mile gives itself the freedom to feel contradictory things . |
1 | It is sentimental but feels free to offend , is analytical and then surrenders to the illogic of its characters , is about grief and yet permits laughter . |
1 | The real triumphs in Igby come from Philippe , who makes Oliver far more interesting than the character 's lines would suggest , and Sarandon , who could n't be better as a cruel but weirdly likable WASP matron . |
1 | Robin Williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of Bicentennial Man in favour of an altogether darker side . |
1 | If you 're willing to have fun with it , you wo n't feel cheated by the high infidelity of Unfaithful . |
1 | Australia : Land Beyond Time is an enjoyable Big Movie primarily because Australia is a weirdly beautiful place . |
1 | Hoffman 's performance is authentic to the core of his being . |
1 | Told just proficiently enough to trounce its overly comfortable trappings . |
1 | An enthralling aesthetic experience , one that 's steeped in mystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty . |
1 | The quirky drama touches the heart and the funnybone thanks to the energetic and always surprising performance by Rachel Griffiths . |
1 | A captivating coming-of-age story that may also be the first narrative film to be truly informed by the wireless age . |
1 | What could have been a daytime soap opera is actually a compelling look at a young woman 's tragic odyssey . |
1 | Duvall is strong as always . |
1 | A no-holds-barred cinematic treat . |
1 | You 'd have to be a most hard-hearted person not to be moved by this drama . |
1 | Allen 's underestimated charm delivers more goodies than lumps of coal . |
1 | Measured against practically any like-themed film other than its Oscar-sweeping franchise predecessor The Silence of the Lambs , Red Dragon rates as an exceptional thriller . |
1 | Maelstrom is strange and compelling , engrossing and different , a moral tale with a twisted sense of humor . |
1 | It makes you believe the cast and crew thoroughly enjoyed themselves and believed in their small-budget film . |
0 | Too often , Son of the Bride becomes an exercise in trying to predict when a preordained `` big moment '' will occur and not `` if . '' |
1 | The picture uses humor and a heartfelt conviction to tell a story about discovering your destination in life , but also acknowledging the places , and the people , from whence you came . |
1 | A terrific insider look at the star-making machinery of tinseltown . |
1 | It 's a diverting enough hour-and-a-half for the family audience . |
0 | A party-hearty teen flick that scalds like acid . |
1 | As giddy and whimsical and relevant today as it was years ago . |
1 | The film offers an intriguing what-if premise . |
1 | The Pianist is the film Roman Polanski may have been born to make . |
1 | This version does justice both to Stevenson and to the sci-fi genre . |
1 | Poignant and delicately complex . |
1 | Enough may pander to our basest desires for payback , but unlike many revenge fantasies , it ultimately delivers . |
1 | Cho 's latest comic set is n't as sharp or as fresh as I 'm the One That I Want ... but it 's still damn funny stuff . |
1 | In The Pianist , Polanski is saying what he has long wanted to say , confronting the roots of his own preoccupations and obsessions , and he allows nothing to get in the way . |
1 | Despite the film 's shortcomings , the stories are quietly moving . |
1 | If you come from a family that eats , meddles , argues , laughs , kibbitzes and fights together , then go see this delightful comedy . |
1 | This bracingly truthful antidote to Hollywood teenage movies that slather Clearasil over the blemishes of youth captures the combustible mixture of a chafing inner loneliness and desperate grandiosity that tend to characterize puberty . |
1 | It 's the filmmakers ' post-camp comprehension of what made old-time B movies good-bad that makes Eight Legged Freaks a perfectly entertaining summer diversion . |
1 | The film 's strength is n't in its details , but in the larger picture it paints - of a culture in conflict with itself , with the thin veneer of nationalism that covers our deepest , media-soaked fears . |
1 | It has its faults , but it is a kind , unapologetic , sweetheart of a movie , and Mandy Moore leaves a positive impression . |
1 | The Saigon of is an uneasy mix of sensual delights and simmering violence , and The Quiet American brings us right into the center of that world . |
1 | Despite its shortcomings , Girls Ca n't Swim represents an engaging and intimate first feature by a talented director to watch , and it 's a worthy entry in the French coming-of-age genre . |
1 | With Dirty Deeds , David Caesar has stepped into the mainstream of filmmaking with an assurance worthy of international acclaim and with every cinematic tool well under his control -- driven by a natural sense for what works on screen . |
1 | The humor and humanity of Monsoon Wedding are in perfect balance . |
0 | Lookin ' for sin , American-style ? |
1 | A compelling motion picture that illustrates an American tragedy . |
1 | As comedic spotlights go , Notorious C.H.O. hits all the verbal marks it should . |
1 | It 's a day at the beach -- with air conditioning and popcorn . |
0 | Frida is n't that much different from many a Hollywood romance . |
1 | What sets it apart is the vision that Taymor , the avant garde director of Broadway 's The Lion King and the film Titus , brings . |
1 | Stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy , the film operates nicely off the element of surprise , and the large cast is solid . |
1 | Extremely well acted by the four primary actors , this is a seriously intended movie that is not easily forgotten . |
1 | The film exudes the urbane sweetness that Woody Allen seems to have bitterly forsaken . |
1 | K- : The Widowmaker is derivative , overlong , and bombastic -- yet surprisingly entertaining . |
1 | It 's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart . |
1 | Cineasts will revel in those visual in-jokes , as in the film 's verbal pokes at everything from the likes of Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein 's bluff personal style to the stylistic rigors of Denmark 's Dogma movement . |
1 | It 's a rare window on an artistic collaboration . |
0 | ... begins with promise , but runs aground after being snared in its own tangled plot . |
1 | Perhaps the best sports movie I 've ever seen . |
1 | Cho 's timing is priceless . |
1 | A sensitive , moving , brilliantly constructed work . |
1 | An edgy thriller that delivers a surprising punch . |
1 | A reasonably entertaining sequel to 's surprise family hit that may strain adult credibility . |
1 | -LRB- Reno -RRB- delivers a monologue that manages to incorporate both the horror and the absurdity of the situation in a well-balanced fashion . |
1 | there is truth here |
1 | a confident , richly acted , emotionally devastating piece of work and 's first great film |
1 | A touching , small-scale story of family responsibility and care in the community . |
1 | Arteta directs one of the best ensemble casts of the year |
1 | The casting of von Sydow ... is itself Intacto 's luckiest stroke . |
1 | No , it 's not as single-minded as John Carpenter 's original , but it 's sure a lot smarter and more unnerving than the sequels . |
1 | A gem of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clever , amusing and unpredictable . |
1 | Stands as one of the year 's most intriguing movie experiences , letting its imagery speak for it while it forces you to ponder anew what a movie can be . |
1 | ... the first \/ of the film are incredibly captivating and insanely funny , thanks in part to interesting cinematic devices -LRB- cool visual backmasking -RRB- , a solid cast , and some wickedly sick and twisted humor ... |
1 | This movie got me grinning . |
1 | There 's a part of us that can not help be entertained by the sight of someone getting away with something . |
1 | An old-fashioned drama of substance about a teacher 's slide down the slippery slope of dishonesty after an encounter with the rich and the powerful who have nothing but disdain for virtue . |
1 | What 's not to like about a movie with a ` children 's ' song that includes the line ` My stepdad 's not mean , he 's just adjusting ' ? |
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