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587,336 | 783,721 | 308,514 | 5 | If you don't have a product to sell , sell the advertising . | Lost in La Mancha is a documentary which takes you behind the scenes of a film which never came to fruition . It shows a dab of this and a dab of that - costuming , casting , prop making , planning , organizing , scheduling , scouting , etc . - before working up to the problems which eventually sunk the film's produc... |
586,926 | 783,721 | 135,807 | 5 | Inside this flick is a good plot trying to get out . | Blackout Effect gets off to a good start and ends confused about it's own purpose . With Stoltz at the center as an NTSB sleuth investigating a midair collision , the film takes the audience into the world of commercial aviation and air traffic control . However , once there , it becomes a mess of conflicts between A... |
586,055 | 783,721 | 188,160 | 5 | A sub-par telling of a good story | Price of Glory is a journeyman drama at best . At issue is the whether the desire of a washed up Latino boxer / patriarch to see his three sons become champion fighters is for his own vicarious realization of a lost dream or to ensure his sons have a financially secure future . In spite of a good story and earnest pe... |
587,563 | 783,721 | 114,681 | 5 | Even Kidman can't carry this dog on her back | To Die For is all about Kidman's character ; a small time t . v . weather-person who makes up for what she lacks in talent and brains with ambition and amorality . This doggedly plodding movie manages to stretch 10 minutes of story into a full length feature with narration heaped upon narration leading to an unsatisf... |
586,362 | 783,721 | 304,328 | 5 | Levity schmevity , burp ! | Levity , a misnomer , slogs through a tedious tale of a guilt-ridden man ( Thornton ) , recently released from a 20 year stint in prison for murder , who goes in search of redemption . Panned by the critics , this film lays down a thick layer of haunting atmospherics , ghostly visions , etc . while Thornton moves zom... |
586,019 | 783,721 | 277,615 | 5 | Very ordinary | Bug starts with a kid squishing a bug and from there launches into chain reactions which affect the lives of a handful of people . A budget conscious indie with a so-so cast and obvious cost cutters throughout , " Bug " doesn't manage to accomplish much beyond its novel approach to story telling . In the heap of " co... |
586,165 | 783,721 | 205,782 | 5 | An ordinary take it or leave it biopic | Boss of Bosses tells of the rise , reign , and fall of mob boss Paul Castellano ( Palminteri ) with the emphasis on his reign as head of the Gambino crime family . " BofB " plays as a rather ordinary made-for-tv biopic centered on a marginally interesting crime figure with Palminteri seemingly helplessly in need of s... |
586,243 | 783,721 | 214,388 | 5 | A fun little college campus romp for the guys | 100 Girls is a slightly naive comedy romp about a college freshman who has sex with an unknown coed on an elevator during a blackout and then spends the entire run time searching the girls ' dorm for his " Cinderella " . Tucker is at the center of this fun little romp which is chock full of babes but has little nudit... |
586,856 | 783,721 | 319,531 | 5 | Die now and spare us the ZZzzzzz | In " I'll Sleep When I Die " is about a loner ( Owen ) , living out of his van in the boonies while dealing with the issues of his checkered past , who must return to London to find out why his brother committed suicide and tie up the loose ends of revenge . This clumsy film seems to take forever to pull together the b... |
586,731 | 783,721 | 149,367 | 5 | Where's the money ? Where's the comedy ? ? | Where the Money Is is a lukewarm light comedy / drama with very little going for it beyond three excellent core actors and a cute premise . Newman , a malingering and savvy thief / convict , is upstaged by Fiorentino's refreshingly unique mix of larceny and loyalty in this so-so production which dwells too much on lo... |
586,814 | 783,721 | 308,671 | 5 | Russian B-movie | Telling of the rise and fall of an upwardly mobile wannabe tycoon who just sort of magically makes a fortune by parlaying brooms into jeans into cars , etc . by climbing the ladder of success in the new Russia's corrupt market economy of the past 20 years , " Tycoon : A New Russian " has low production value , a story ... |
585,848 | 783,721 | 116,931 | 5 | G'bye mate ! | 1996 must have been a lousy year for Aussie films considering the nominations which this klunker received . " Love and Other . . . . " tells of a day in the life of Mia ( O'Connor ) , a lesbian college student who's having a bad day not unlike the audience . This kinda-sorta comedy isn't likely to evoke even a giggle f... |
585,672 | 783,721 | 376,874 | 5 | A traditional take on a timeless subject with nothing new | Sexual Life takes a superficial look at the romantic inclinations or disinclinations of several disparate but loosely interconnected Los Angeles couples as it flows serially from one couple to the next , eventually coming full circle in the end . The common denominator is sex and other relationship salients though th... |
586,670 | 783,721 | 399,877 | 5 | Lost in translation | What The ' Bleep ' Do We Know is a sort of quasi-documentary offering the thoughts and musing of a bunch of egg heads about lofty subjects from quantum physics to neurobiology to the nature of God , the universe , etc . all built around a day in the life of Marlee Matlin whose experiences parallel or are analogous to... |
585,830 | 783,721 | 219,965 | 5 | Mediocre flick with lousy screenplay relies on star power | Bandits is a comedy trying to be an action flick trying to be a drama trying to be romantic trying to . . . . . etc . Levinson and Peyton conjure up the usual , the nominal , the mediocre Hollywood fare in this story about a couple of obviously manufactured characters who rob banks . The flick never really connects w... |
587,479 | 783,721 | 327,247 | 5 | A typical case of sequelitis | The Whole Ten Yards , the sequel to " The Whole Nine Yards " ( 2000 ) , pulls together the same cast and runs with the ball again thought it fumbles and fails to make a touch down . Trying to capitalize on what made " . . . Nine Yards " a commercial comedy success , " . . . Ten Yards " suffers from sequelitis , offer... |
586,904 | 783,721 | 200,427 | 5 | Zirconium film | Diamond Men is a slice-of-life flick about an aging traveling diamond salesman ( Forster ) , his protege ( Wahlberg ) , and their experiences on the road . In spite of being a good natured light drama with a heart , " Diamond Men " can't escape its amateurish screen play and obvious low budgetness as it wanders throu... |
586,020 | 783,721 | 288,477 | 5 | Hokey | Ghost Ship tells of a 40 year old haunted derelict Italian luxury liner located in the Bering Sea by a tug crew of salvage divers who find gold and a whole bunch of scary stuff on board . The film offers a decent cast with good production value but flops big time on story . The plot is thin and hokey and the film lit... |
586,800 | 783,721 | 110,649 | 5 | A lead balloon of a film | The New Age is deep satire which runs the gamut of things 90's . Using a Davis and Weller , a 40ish L . A . married couple , as a centerpiece , the film attempts to depict the emptiness of the hedonistic , materialistic , and morally bankrupt life style of the " new age " as it follows the principals from schmoozfest... |
585,815 | 783,721 | 93,248 | 5 | A lukewarm telling of a true spy story . | The Impossible Spy is a so-so spy flick and docudrama which tells of renowned Israeli spy Eli Cohen and his penetration of the Syrian government in the years prior to the Six Days War . The film has the look of a low budget indie and , though it's well meaning and earnest , it is not a very elegant flick . Furthermor... |
586,022 | 783,721 | 235,048 | 5 | The last Civil War movie to see | Wicked Spring is a very ordinary low budget indie which plays out like a slice of Civil War life as men from both sides spend time together during a respite in the Battle of the Wilderness . This plotless film is put together with relatively unknown actors delivering mediocre performances ; lots of reenactment battle... |
586,941 | 783,721 | 398,712 | 5 | Same old stuff | Assault on Precinct 13 is an ordinary action / drama about a handful of cops , a couple of babes , and several criminals in a soon-to-be-defunct police station house on a dark and snowy New Year's eve who come under siege by a small army of bad guys who want to kill one of the prisoners to prevent him from testifying... |
587,610 | 783,721 | 250,425 | 5 | A film for sentimentalists and Ving fans . | Holiday Heart attempts to be a touching lite drama about a burly drag queen who befriends a female druggie and her daughter . Rhames works hard to fit into his character and his dresses and , to his credit , pulls it off . The film in general is a little schmaltzy around the edges , makes obvious efforts to push the ... |
586,563 | 783,721 | 283,952 | 5 | A very ordinary oft told tale | Blue Hill Avenue is the story of the rise of Tristan ( Payne ) from ghetto kid to drug kingpin . An attempt to show the how a kid can be strung out on money while his turf gets strung out on narcotics makes this flick old news . Production value , cast , and camera are low end but acceptable . Where this film really ... |
586,713 | 783,721 | 120,390 | 5 | How's this for rationalizing ? | There's a bizarre human appetite for that which is awful . From lookie-looing at traffic accidents to Man Show mooks to Lettreman's stupid pet tricks to worst home videos , etc . , people like to watch people being stupid , outrageous , and ridiculous . Therein lies the appeal of " Turbulence " , a not-to-be-taken-seri... |
585,601 | 783,721 | 116,592 | 5 | A confused mess of a movie . | I Love You , I Love You Not is an ambiguous and confused movie about a Jewish prep school girl in NYC ( Danes ) who spends a lot of time hanging out and acting oh so very " girl " with her " nana " ( Moreau ) and falls for a too charming and over-acting Jude Law . A mess of a movie which spins nonsense around solid p... |
586,961 | 783,721 | 323,571 | 5 | Warn-ing ! | The Nemesis Game tells of a college student , Sara ( Pope ) , who plays a game of riddles but who can't seem to solve the riddle of her life . The film develops a pair of wispy , marginally intriguing , and converging plot lines ; Sara and her riddle game and her father , a cop , and his interrogation of a murder sus... |
586,870 | 783,721 | 116,606 | 5 | Yawn ! | If Lucy Fell tells of a man and woman who have known each other since childhood , live together platonically , and are both single and looking for love unsuccessfully . Hmmm . . . what do you suppose is going to happen ? ? Schaeffer's shot at telling this old no-brainer in " If Lucy Fell " doesn't distinguish itself ... |
586,978 | 783,721 | 283,942 | 5 | Eminently average | There little worth commenting on in " Black Point " , an obvious , hackneyed , journeyman , low budget B-flick which is just another in a very long line of films about a bunch of people after a bunch of money . The film has nothing original to offer and is so ordinary in every way that it's not worthy of commentary . I... |
585,646 | 783,721 | 314,786 | 5 | Zzzzzzz . . . is it over yet ? | The In-Laws is a busy comedy which does a lot of things and does none of them well . Built around a wedding which brings characters together so we can watch them clash , this film ventures into international spy stuff , personal and family issues , action , comedy , and even tries for some poignancy fizzling every av... |
586,096 | 783,721 | 173,999 | 5 | Good start , lousy finish . | The Magic of Marciano begins as a rock solid journeyman drama about a boy ( Morgan ) , trying to cope with an emotionally unstable working class single mom ( Kinski ) and her abusive boyfriend , who finds a friend in an older man ( Forster ) . As the film wears on , however , it takes a nose dive as Barbieri begins r... |
586,080 | 783,721 | 116,565 | 5 | Low end Aussie romcom | Twin brothers fall in love with the same woman ( Burrows ) as teens . Fast forward ten years and they own a honeymoon retreat , encounter their old flame who has come for her wedding , and attempt to pick up where they left off in spite of the presence of the groom . What follows in the denouement is a bit clumsy and a... |
586,134 | 783,721 | 246,578 | 5 | Who cares ? | Take a little comedy , toss in some drama , add a pinch of romance , mix the whole thing with some science fiction , and you have " Donnie Darko " , which , BTW , you should not consume but flush down the garbage disposal . Novice writer / director Kelly spins a yarn about a delusional burb-dwelling WASP teen male who ... |
586,356 | 783,721 | 250,491 | 5 | A wee flick | Late Night Shopping is a little , lukewarm Brit friends comedy which follows the lives and loves of a trio of young Glasgow guys who spend most of their time trying to figure out their lives and loves . The film wanders from pillar to post seemingly searching for its story until it settles on one couple and the recon... |
587,580 | 783,721 | 103,128 | 5 | A fun little comedy that turns a black man white . | True Identity is a kinda / sorta fun little campy comedy about a black man who hides from the mob disguised as a white hit man . Very mediocre stuff , " TI " does give the viewer a rare opportunity to see Lenny Henry do his shtick . Worth a look but nothing special . |
587,359 | 783,721 | 93,391 | 5 | Mediocre Perry Mason stuff | The Last Innocent Man is a predictable , by-the-numbers journeyman tv flick with Harris playing a top criminal attorney who has an affair with the wife of a man whom he later must defend . . . etc . In it's somewhat long two hour run time this - jack - of - all - trades - and - master - of - none flick manages to squ... |
586,741 | 783,721 | 250,468 | 5 | Razzie material | Killing Me Softly tells of a couple who has sex , gets married , and then has problems because she ( Graham ) grows increasingly suspicious of him ( Fiennes ) whom she never really got to know before the marriage ( duh ) . On the downside , the film has a thin story full of plot holes and implausibilities with ponder... |
586,084 | 783,721 | 112,883 | 6 | Fun romantic whimsy | In " Don Juan DeMarco " , Depp plays a man who , institutionalized after threatening to jump from a building while being dressed like Zorro , recounts the fantastic romantic tale of his life to his psychiatrist ( Brando ) and how be became the world's greatest lover . A romantic comedy of sorts , " DJD " begs the quest... |
585,906 | 783,721 | 132,213 | 6 | Cute , light hearted , and amusing stuff free on cable . | Hi-LIfe tells of a NYC corner pub and the antics of numerous young adults associated with it . . . a sort of " Cheers " kind of " feel " . The plot : He needs to pay off a bookie . His girl friend tells her bro she's preggo and needs the money for an abortion . The bro begin calling in old debts from old friends . . ... |
587,001 | 783,721 | 122,459 | 6 | A sitcom quality romantic / comedy from the old school . | While not a big budget blockbuster , " Return To Me " pushes all the right buttons for those who enjoy this overworked genre . The film offers an interesting premise ; doesn't take itself too seriously ; showcases some okay acting talent ; and serves up some refreshing creativity . More than your trite chick flick , th... |
585,885 | 783,721 | 325,352 | 6 | Obvious , predictable , and fun | I'll Be There tells of a singing Brit teen with a paper route and a pink scooter who lives with her mum and learns the father she never knew is a wacky rock star ( Ferguson ) who lives nearby . On the downside , this obvious , contrived , and predictable string of feel good moments , sitcom , and song stumbles over a... |
586,265 | 783,721 | 233,469 | 6 | About what you'd expect . | Arnold's getting a little long in the tooth and spending more time with his shirt on while feebly trying to act like a real actor in more serious roles . In " Collateral Damage " the muscle man plays a fireman who goes to Colombia on a mission of vengeance and returns to the US to finish the job . " CD " is pretty much... |
587,411 | 783,721 | 118,623 | 6 | A poor telling of an oft told tale . | Anna Karenina , ( circa 1997 ) is a lavish abbreviated retelling of the Tolstoy classic which tries to do too much with too little time . The capable cast seems to have mostly British accents ( except for Marceau's rather obvious French undertone ) which seem out of place in a film shot and set in Russia . This leap-... |
586,632 | 783,721 | 109,053 | 6 | Typical made-for-tv exploitation fare . | Against the Wall is a journeyman tv docudrama ( with the emphasis on " drama " ) which tells of the Attica prison riot of 1971 . Okay as a gritty and violent prison drama , " ATW " fails to crystalize prison issues or make significant social commentary . Pretty much your usual run-of-the-mill Hollywood exploitaition ... |
586,804 | 783,721 | 112,844 | 6 | Very hip , kooky , funny . | Life , love , sex , birth , death . . . and all on the phone . This very hip comedy is all about a handful of New York guys and gals who tend to their relationships via telephone while busily hammering at computers or are otherwise indisposed with the necessities of living . Fresh , creative , and fun , " DCU " moves a... |
587,275 | 783,721 | 338,109 | 6 | I . V . to ivy | Homeless to Harvard tells the true story of Liz Murray who went from living with her druggie parents in a Bronx slum and living on the street while dumpster diving for food to earning a degree at Harvard University . This gritty TV flick is narrated by Thora Birch who registers a sterling performance as the wan , slu... |
586,762 | 783,721 | 241,025 | 6 | Thackery goes Hollywood | Vanity Fair ( 2004 ) is an acceptable but abbreviated version of the classic Thackery Victorian period novel which tells of Becky Sharp ( Witherspoon ) , who uses artifice and charm to climb from lowly governess to aristocrat , always able to find a suitable family of peerage or property to use as a rung in her ladde... |
586,766 | 783,721 | 338,097 | 6 | Romantic epic wannabe | Head in the Clouds , set in Paris ( circa 1920's-1940's ) , is all about a trio of three characters ; two women and one man . The centerpiece of the trio and the film is Theron as an independent , capricious , liberal and free spirited women who is in love with both her male and female part-time companions ( Townsend... |
586,142 | 783,721 | 112,857 | 6 | A near miss | The Devil in a Blue Dress is all about Washington's character , a 1948 veteran who is recently unemployed and takes earnest money for a simple errand from a man of dubious character only to find himself as the suspect in a murder case with tentacles reaching into the underworld and politics . A norish linear narrativ... |
587,546 | 783,721 | 118,586 | 6 | Earnest , gritty , solid indie . | Exceptionally well done for a low budget indie with a novice auteur , " All Over Me " is a slice-of-life character study which follows an adolescent urban girl , Claude ( Folland ) , with a-typical sexual inclinations and a dream of playing guitar in a rock band through the mean teen streets of NYC's low rent district ... |
586,205 | 783,721 | 281,686 | 6 | Heartbreak ho-stel | The plot to " Buba Ho-Tep " goes something like this : After swapping identities with an Elvis impersonator , the real Elvis ( Campbell ) breaks a hip from too many pelvic gyrations , develops a tumor on his dingus , and then ends up in a sanatorium where he meets a black man who thinks he is JFK ( Davis ) with sand in... |
586,710 | 783,721 | 295,178 | 6 | All you need to know . | If you like Austin Powers , see this movie . If you don't like Austin Powers , don't see this movie . That's all you need to know as " Goldmember " is a simple albeit extravagant sequel and cash flow conduit from the < 30 crowd into Hollywood bank accounts . Just more of the same potty / crotch humor , sexual innuendos... |
586,996 | 783,721 | 118,566 | 6 | More like a bad after taste than an after glow . | You're the most fascinating woman I've ever met , he tells her after knowing her for about five minutes . Perhaps that will give you a sense of the sophomoric nature of " Afterglow " ; a film which tells of two neurotic married couples , one middle aged ( Nolte / Christie ) and one younger ( Boyle / Miller ) , and th... |
585,618 | 783,721 | 160,672 | 6 | See Joe get smacked . See Joe get yelled at . See Joe steal . Etc . | Joe the King is a slice-of-miserable-life flick about a boy from a dysfunctional family who steals . That's pretty much the premise , the plot , the story , the whole enchilada . This uneventful and seemingly pointless film is a good journeyman production in all respects with the exception of the story which is too p... |
587,304 | 783,721 | 290,334 | 6 | Good stuff if you like comic books . | X2 tells another tale about our favorite mutants and a few new ones too but it's not likely anyone is really going to care about the story . What the film has to offer is solid effects , heavy on the CGI , with babes , kids who kick butt , lots of cool special powers , and action and stunts up the wazoo . In other wo... |
587,697 | 783,721 | 112,769 | 6 | An austere plodding Euro-flick psychodrama . | La Cérémonie is an ordinary film in every way with the exception of the foreboding , unrelenting stealth with which the ominous story unfolds . Tedious at first , this film packs a punch at the end . However , in the final analysis , with more questions asked than answered , one has to wonder if the conclusion was wo... |
585,870 | 783,721 | 244,970 | 6 | Mooooo ! | Someone . . . . is a predictable formula fluff-filled romantic comedy which is all about Ashley . Likely to be a guy gagging chick pleaser , the film does everything by the book but is uninspired , lacking in creativity , and muddles in the middle with too much neophilliac bovine nonsense and the see-saw stuff with K... |
587,331 | 783,721 | 118,531 | 6 | The following comments were written by a real movie patron . | 187 is all about Jackson as a teacher who is driven to taking matters into his own hands when confronted by a class full of gangbangers in an L . A . high school . The film offers good stylistics and Jackson does a stand up job given the stupid character he has to play . However , this flick 187's itself with nonsens... |
587,450 | 783,721 | 210,299 | 6 | A mixed bag | Songcatcher tells the story of an early 1900's musicologist who travels to the Smoky Mountains where she discovers indigenous mountain music and sets about to document it . A somewhat flawed telling of a solid but esoteric story built on a foundation of authentic mountain music , " Songcatcher " , a film too much in ... |
586,935 | 783,721 | 268,695 | 6 | Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ! | A professor ( Pearce ) obsessed with time travel climbs aboard his Rube Goldburg gyro-thingamajig and gets catapulted through time 800 gazillion years where really nice cliff dwelling people , who conveniently speak English , live in dread of evil subterranean creatures . . . etc . His mission : To rescue the a babe fr... |
586,722 | 783,721 | 252,501 | 6 | Too little , too late . | Hearts in Atlantis has all the makings of a first rate film . What could have been just a heart warming slice-of-life flick wanders sloth-like off into the paranormal threatening something ominous and foreboding and then poofs into the expected . The beginning and end with Morse is unnecessary footage and an obvious ... |
585,661 | 783,721 | 268,690 | 6 | Bored me out of my skull . | Thirteen . . . is a pieced together , planar , circumflex , Magnoliaesque bunch of interleaved stories about people with varying levels of happiness , fulfillment , experience , achievement , etc . : A kind of superficial overview of the human condition of some city dwellers which feebly deals with happiness . The fi... |
587,551 | 783,721 | 91,374 | 6 | The proverbial chick flick | Lady Jane tells a revisionist tale of Lady Jane Grey ( Carter ) , teen Queen of the empire of England for nine days , whose martyrdom , alleged to be in the name of religion , has made her story undeservedly romantic . The film sports a good cast and all the royal trappings of the 1550's period . However , the screen... |
587,293 | 783,721 | 160,644 | 6 | Preposterous , contrived , fantastic . | Passion of Mind pivots around the Moore character like teeter-totter : One woman , two personas , two love affairs . Those expecting " Three Faces of Eve " realism will likely regard this film as a preposterous , flawed , and silly fabrication . After all , Demi's dilemma could be resolved with one phone call . Those... |
585,952 | 783,721 | 337,921 | 6 | Action / drama / suspense and comedy ? | Cellular is all about Basinger as a kidnapped mom being held hostage in an attic who manages to jury-rig a broken phone and make a tenuous emergency call to a young man ( Evans ) who has to help save the day while keeping her on the line with his cell phone . From there it's more kidnapping , cops and chases , fights... |
585,754 | 783,721 | 337,943 | 6 | Entertaining tv watch best served with pizza and beer . | Consequence sticks Asante in the center of a convoluted noirish mystery-suspense-drama about a man who does an identity switch to collect insurance money and finds himself with a small army of bad guys on his tail . Obviously a low budget B-flick with Cape Town standing in for San Diego , the creative folks behind th... |
586,692 | 783,721 | 295,362 | 6 | A convoluted mess | Chaos begins as story of a handyman and a married woman who conspire to extort money from the woman's husband by faking her kidnapping . But when the woman is murdered , the story begins a series of twists and becomes a cinematic pretzel . What is a stylish shoot with competence on both sides of the lens eventually s... |
585,895 | 783,721 | 126,344 | 6 | Subtly clever and cockeyed small time comedy about small time crooks . | I Went Down is a droll , sometime monotonous , sometimes clever comedy about a couple of guys who run an errand for a small time gangster and end up embroiled an underworld scheme of very limited proportions . The film spends most of its time studying the characters involved as its mildly humorous story unfolds leadi... |
586,268 | 783,721 | 198,386 | 6 | A flick with a brain , a heart , and a good sense of humor . | The Crew tells of four aging " wise guys " retired in Florida who tire of being " porch potatoes " and decide to reinvent their " crew " which leads to a series of funny escapades . The film has a solid cast , a lively joke-a-second script , and plenty of criss-crossed subplots so there's never a dull moment . Unlike... |
586,986 | 783,721 | 240,913 | 6 | Tedious , bland , excellent | Under the Sand follows a woman who is in denial over the disappearance of her husband . Rampling delivers a splendid performance ( no stretching ) as the film plods along slowly lingering over the smallest details of her life revealing her desperate grief one fragment at a time while even showing her in the company o... |
587,569 | 783,721 | 91,188 | 6 | Good but vague in purpose . | Heartburn has Mick Nichols at the helm with Streep and Nicholson starring and an excellent supporting cast including a bit debut by Kevin Spacy . In spite of all that , the film has only managed lukewarm commentary from critics and public alike . Taking a somewhat cynical look at marriage as it follows one couple ( S... |
586,452 | 783,721 | 217,869 | 6 | Paint an elephant blue and its still an elephant . | A movie by Shyamalan is a movie by Shyamalan is a movie by Shyamalan . At least that's the trend which " Unbreakable " would suggest . Another plodding and tedious bunch of Hollywood dark kinda paranormal stuff , this film manages to squeeze even less plot into its run time than its Shyamalan predecessor , " The Sixth ... |
586,254 | 783,721 | 277,296 | 6 | Good butt kickin ' fun . | The Scorpion King tells of a desert assassin ( the hero ) , his reluctant comic-relief buddy , his trusty camel , a luscioius sorceress , a gigantus black warlord dude , an army of barbarous babes , cute theif / kid , and an old alchemist who take on a desert bastion to rid the kingdom of the people's scourge , a wic... |
587,048 | 783,721 | 210,358 | 6 | The preeminent chick flick . | Though more cerebral than most chick flicks , " Things . . . " is all about women and women's issues . A plaintive and sometimes quirky look into a handful of female lives , this film is shot as several vignettes connected by one or two cross-over characters . Lacking in substance and story , " Things . . . " relies he... |
587,645 | 783,721 | 130,192 | 6 | Mediocre serial killer stuff | In " Postmortem " , Sheen plays a burnt out ex homicide detective from San Francisco who , while hiding from his past in Scotland and booze , gets caught up in a serial killer mystery . The flick is okay artistically though at times so ponderously morose and dark as to have the appearance of an old Frankenstein flick .... |
587,589 | 783,721 | 105,032 | 6 | A lukewarm French film about an HIV + man and his torment . | Savage Nights is a character driven film about an HIV + bisexual man and his love affairs , particularly with the female lead . As is often the case with Europics , especially French films , this movie is not so much a story as it is a study of behavior . In this case the behavior is of interest because the male lead... |
586,090 | 783,721 | 210,382 | 6 | Less would have been more . | The Weigh of Water interleaves a present day story of two DINK couples on a boat exploring the New England coast where the second story of the murder of two Norwegian women took place 127 years before with the second story . Sound confusing ? Well , the film is surprisingly coherent considering it's a Rubik's cube of... |
585,826 | 783,721 | 112,679 | 6 | Okay chick flick for Driver and O'Donnell fans | Circle of Friends tells of three Irish young women and best friends and their encounters with life , men , school , family matters , etc . Artistically and technically well done with Driver in the driver's seat nailing her part as usual , " Circle . . . " starts at a crawl and finds itself running at the end , ill ti... |
586,729 | 783,721 | 195,234 | 6 | A nominal telling of a clever story . | Saving Grace is a light-hearted comedy / drama about a penniless widow's creative approach to saving her estate . This very British film is only a nominal production , but Brits and non-Brits alike should enjoy the wry , witty , and clever story and some fine British actors . Will be appreciated most by those who enj... |
586,778 | 783,721 | 118,697 | 6 | A mildly enjoyable mediocre no-brainer with murder , sex , etc . | The Beneficiary tells of a woman who is investigated for the murder of her husband , becomes romantically involved with one of the investigators , etc . Not a " thriller " but a drama with murder and sex and all that other good escapist stuff , this flick is mediocre at best with the only above average aspect being i... |
586,475 | 783,721 | 202,677 | 6 | A well staged gritty kidnap flick with limited appeal . | The Way of the Gun is a gritty , messy , bloody , dark kidnap B-flick in which the entire cast of characters is somewhere between wanton and downright evil . The film's plot is a twisty-turny convoluted kind of mess which asks more questions than it answers and may interest or even seduce viewers with an appetite for... |
586,169 | 783,721 | 221,218 | 6 | Looks good but delivers too many threadbare situations . | The Glass House tells of a teenaged girl ( Sobieski ) and her younger brother who are forced to live with a foster mom ( Lane ) and dad ( Skarsgard ) when their natural parents mysteriously die in a car crash . Wealthy foster daddy has his own agenda ; to rip off the kid's $4 million trust while Sobieski counters arm... |
585,623 | 783,721 | 118,694 | 6 | ZZZZzzzzzzz ( snort ) . . . Um , is it over yet ? | In the Mood for Love takes you back to Hong Kong in the 60's and introduces you to a married man and woman ( Cheung & Leung ) who have neighboring apartments and spouses who are abroad and suspected of having extramarital affairs . This entire film is about said couple falling in like with each other while maintainin... |
586,153 | 783,721 | 338,013 | 6 | Disappointing and forgettable | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a sloppy mess of a movie which dumps sci-fi , romance , camp comedy , and mediocre drama into a Mulligan stew seasoned with intellectual grunge . The film spends most of its run time flashing to and fro between a romantically involved couple's happy days and a sort of lame whi... |
587,132 | 783,721 | 240,980 | 6 | Beautifully boring | Till Human Voices Wake Us tells two parallel stories at the same time , interleaving scenes . The first is of a man ( Pearce ) returning to his boyhood home in Australia to bury his father and , with the help of a mysterious woman ( Bonham Carter ) , bittersweet memories of his childhood . The second story shows us t... |
586,869 | 783,721 | 256,415 | 6 | Will play best in the hen house | Sweet Home Alabama is all about Mel ( Witherspoon ) , a hot NYC fashion designer who's betrothed to the mayor's son but must return to her small town Alabama roots for some unfinished business before tying the knot . Most of the 100 + minute run is spent waiting for Mel to make up her mind and show us if you - can - ... |
587,449 | 783,721 | 167,183 | 6 | Surprisingly refreshing indie sleeper chick-flick | The Girls ' Room is a surprisingly engaging little indie " sleeper " about two college seniors and roomies . One is a proper and privileged Southern Bell " have " ( Taber ) and the other a pot smoking , beer drinking , sexually active " have-not " ( Frye aka Punky Brewster ) . The plot is about the inevitable conflic... |
586,103 | 783,721 | 160,495 | 6 | Luckytown blows . | Somewhere in this contrived morass of stereotypes and shoddy film making is a story with some entertainment value . Good hearted street chick meets boy gambler and they hit the road for Vegas where she meets up with her long lost dad , falls in love with her traveling companion , and both learn some lessons in life . U... |
585,978 | 783,721 | 221,673 | 6 | A journeyman docudrama and rehash of old news . | Released on video as " Echo of Murder " , this film is a scrapbook docudrama which retells the history of the infamous early 80's Atlanta " Child Murders " through the investigative reporting of two journalists , Heins and Belushi . The film gathers momentum quickly and keeps up the pace though the story is more a regu... |
587,334 | 783,721 | 290,662 | 6 | Sweet , sensitive , warm , lilting , and looooooong ! | Hush is a dramedy out of Japan which swirls around a handful of young adults including a couple of gay men and a female who wants to have a baby by one of them . This skillfully crafted flick has warmth and charm and poignancy and heart and humor and . . . . but , damn , it sure is long and bland . About as interesti... |
586,672 | 783,721 | 373,024 | 6 | Grief , grief , and more grief . | Imaginary Heros takes a long , hard look at a middle class family of five which , following the suicide of a son , goes into a sort of interminable funk with family members wandering around in a fog coping with grief while we sit wondering it they're ever going to get the " dys " out of their dysfunction . Weaver reg... |
586,181 | 783,721 | 217,769 | 6 | Corny but cute family flick | Frankie and Hazel is a supersanitized perfect world family flick which tells of the antics of two best friend small town pubescent girls who support each other as they pursue radically different aspirations . Frankie is ballet student who wants to play boy's baseball while Hazel wants to run for mayor . Good family f... |
585,821 | 783,721 | 91,538 | 6 | A good , gritty watch for those who can make the buy-in | In " Mona Lisa " , Hoskins plays an excon who takes a job as a chauffeur for a call girl ( Tyson ) and becomes involved with seedy underworld people as he attempts to help her find a young woman also in the sex trade . Shot in the UK as a realistic drama , " Mona Lisa " runs longer than necessary considering the simpli... |
585,595 | 783,721 | 237,539 | 6 | Charming little romantic tale for mature women | Bread & Tulips is a charming and leisurely slice-of-life romantic tale about a middle class , middle aged Italian housewife who gets separated from her family during a holiday bus trip and find herself falling in love in Venice . Italian and subtitled , " B & T " spends its run time developing a handful of quaintly q... |
585,883 | 783,721 | 342,172 | 6 | Excellent for what it is | Capturing the Friedmans , is a look at the lives of a middle-class , Long Island Jewish family which was torn apart by the arrest of the father and one son on kiddie porn and child molestation charges . As independent documentary film-making goes ( which isn't very far ) this one is excellent . However , the subject ... |
585,928 | 783,721 | 151,734 | 6 | A docudrama with the emphasis on " docu " | Excellent Cadavers is an HBO docudrama which tells the story of Italian hero Giovanni Falcone ; a Sicilian judge who dared to take on the Mafia in its homeland and did more to rid Sicily of its age old scourge than any other man since Mussolini . As with most docudramas , this film leapfrogs through time hitting the ... |
587,521 | 783,721 | 245,157 | 6 | Yada yada yada in Dutch | Zus & Zo is all about three adult sisters who conspire to thwart their gay brother's forthcoming wedding thus preventing him from inheriting a beautiful hotel on the Portuguese coast . Their late patriarch wanted his gay son to go " straight " , so he left the hotel to him if he married . However , the bro wants to a... |
585,743 | 783,721 | 91,578 | 6 | A par Europic | My Beautiful Laundrette is a dramady involving a group of Pakastanis in England , some local hoodlums , and a laundromat . The story is about one Pakistani man ( Warnecke ) and a long time Englishman friend ( Day-Lewis ) who both live on the wrong side of the tracks as they grope for success in the laundromat busines... |
586,564 | 783,721 | 285,823 | 6 | When will they learn ? | After two big " El Mariachi " hits and earning the credibility and respect to command the big bucks , Rodriguez does what so many before him have done and cranks up the volume to numbing excess driving the audience into sensory overload while breaching the point where more becomes less and running what could have been ... |
586,160 | 783,721 | 294,918 | 6 | Very well done but not very interesting . | Shot in the Heart is an excellent HBO flick with one huge , glaring fault . It is , in a word , boring . Granted , many will be absorbed by the human drama . However , in the final analysis it's still 75 % conversation between a murderer on death row and his estranged brother in which they share perspectives on famil... |
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