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585,943 | 783,721 | 303,714 | 6 | Shines in the shop . Lackluster outside . | Barbershop is a sometimes hokey , sometimes fresh , and always likeable Afro-Am comedy about a motley bunch of haircutters in a 40 year old urban Chicago barbershop which has become a neighborhood institution of sorts . Though the film does have an underlying serious story and a silly side plot about a stolen ATM mac... |
586,963 | 783,721 | 113,057 | 6 | Pure voyeurism | It is good thing Ledoyen is a seriously babe-a-licious hottie because she fills up every frame of this tedious and uneventful nonstory . In " A Single Girl " , the camera follows Valérie ( Ledoyen ) around in real time , dogging her as she walks and walks and works and talks and walks and works and smokes and talks and... |
587,021 | 783,721 | 167,082 | 6 | A jolly good romp amongst English gentry . | The arranged marriage of an English aristocrat's daughter goes awry befuddling all concerned in this well made and lighthearted comedy . An unpretentious little film , " Clandestine Marriage " serves up an ample portion of good old English comedy and quits while it's ahead . |
587,566 | 783,721 | 91,605 | 6 | Elementary , my dear Adso ! | In " The Name of the Rose " , Connery plays a 14th century Franciscan monk who , with his novice ( Slater ) in tow and armed with a wealth of scholarly knowledge and acute powers of observation and deduction , visits a dank European abbey to solve mysterious deaths . Little more than an enjoyable European cum Hollywood... |
587,203 | 783,721 | 105,415 | 6 | Not Crowe's best work but still mildly amusing and entertaining | Two Seattle single couples and assorted friends and neighbors work at dealing with the foibles , insecurities , games and other issues of contemporary dating and relationship building in this hip but less than coherent flick . As much as the characters are likable and believable , so the film lacks clear purpose and a ... |
585,597 | 783,721 | 240,890 | 6 | How you feel about this movie will say more about you than the film | Serendipity tells of a love-at-first-sight meeting of a Jon ( Cusack ) and Sara ( Beckinsale ) , their chance premature parting , and their hopeful but seemingly hopeless quest to find each other again years later . " Serendipity " is a an obviously fabrication . . . but a wonderfully romantic fabrication . Chock ful... |
586,206 | 783,721 | 95,467 | 6 | A Polish artie | A Short Story About Love with its cast of two , not including a couple of side characters , is not short in length at 86 minutes but is short in stature as it lingers tediously over the tenuous relationship which develops between an immature and introverted postal worker and the attractive older woman he watches from... |
587,081 | 783,721 | 281,938 | 6 | For boxing fans only | Joe and Max tells the true story of two champion boxers who fight each other in the ring while forming a bond of friendship and mutual respect outside the ring . Full of unrealized ironic potential with men of different color finding common ground in a world driven to war in part by racial division , " Joe and Max " ... |
586,957 | 783,721 | 113,044 | 6 | A nominal , romanticized lite drama . | Feast . . . is a well crafted , somewhat staged and romanticized drama about a woman , Bella ( Davidtz ) , who wanders into the lives of a 19th century agrarian English family with 3 adult sons changing their lives forever . The film offers good performances by all , represents rural life of the time well , is artful... |
586,645 | 783,721 | 264,616 | 6 | Simple minded , monotonous , redundant , and disappointing . | Fraility is 70 minutes of Bill Paxton whacking people with an ax in the name of God while his young son's watch . The balance of the film is the setup in the beginning and the twisty-turny stuff at the end . There's little suspense , few thrills , and almost no action leaving just so much plodding , stoic , and somew... |
586,121 | 783,721 | 382,944 | 6 | Old school noir crime flick | Reversible Errors is a three hour film noir TV B-movie which tells a convoluted tale of a homicide cop ( Selleck ) , his prosecutor lover ( Potter ) , a defense attorney ( Macy ) , and a judge ( Huffman ) who all become involved in a triple homicide investigation , a possible wrongful conviction , and another investi... |
586,035 | 783,721 | 312,549 | 6 | Looks familiar . Sounds like blarney . Feels ordinary . | Biopic drama " Veronica Guerin " represents the title character , an investigative journalist who is out of expose the drug bosses of Dublin , as a woman who has been beaten up and threatened with her life if she continues her work and who , in spite of all that , continues while taking no counter-measures ( no Kevlar®... |
585,899 | 783,721 | 180,181 | 6 | A gem of a sleeper from down-under . | Soft Fruit is a bittersweet Aussie flick about a terminally ill mother who summons her adult children to her bedside for her final days . Anything but a downer , this cross-genre flick shows us humor , poignancy , and quirkiness as we watch a barely functional and functional barely family deal with the passing of its... |
586,371 | 783,721 | 285,879 | 6 | Nada passion | Passionada is all about Milos as a beautiful Portuguese widow and cabaret singer who mourns the loss of her fisherman husband while her daughter and gambling prodigy Rossum consorts with professional card player Issacs to get good old mom out of her funk . The result is a beautifully shot film with marginally interes... |
586,892 | 783,721 | 118,497 | 6 | Acceptable | Touching Evil ( 1997-98 ) is a Brit TV series about a special unit of detectives who take on the really tough crimes . Robson Green leads the way as an intense and determined workaholic cop with personal issues who will do anything to ferret out his quarry . Unfortunately mediocre , this series substitutes convolution... |
585,803 | 783,721 | 105,226 | 6 | A good old fashioned noir popcorn flick . | Red Rock West is one of those drama-noir ensemble movies where the bad guys are really bad and the good guys . . . well , they're just kinda bad . It's a movie where the brooding , plodding , and unrelenting hero , hang-faced Cage , never smiles because there's never anything to smile about . It's a movie where all t... |
586,338 | 783,721 | 338,188 | 6 | Marginally entertaining run of the mill Hollywood Western . | The Missing , a drama set in the late 1800's American South West , tells of the abduction of a girl by a bunch of Indians to be sold into slavery across the border in Mexico . The girl's grandfather ( Jones ) , a European American who follows the Indian ways , and the girl's homesteading mother ( Blanchett ) set off ... |
586,148 | 783,721 | 390,521 | 6 | Fun propaganda | Super Size Me ( with " super size " used as a verb , not an adjective ) is an obviously agenda-driven and skewed documentary all about its creator and his one month fast food binge designed to prove that McDonalds food is not all that when it comes to health . Indie maker Spurlock spends one month chucking down nothi... |
586,341 | 783,721 | 95,250 | 6 | Fish story | The Big Blue : Director's Cut is a glossy , slick mess of a movie which starts as a monochrome backstory drama and then dissolves into a color present day story which goes nowhere at the speed of light . The film wanders drunkenly from comedy to romance to drama to dolphin documentary while not serving well in any ge... |
586,750 | 783,721 | 299,458 | 6 | I know I love you because I hurt when you're not around so to assure myself of that I stay away even though I love you which is why I hurt all the time . . . . etc . | All The Real Girls is a kind of contempo hillbilly love story which looks too long and too hard at one not very bright young adult couple as they stumble and bumble through the vicissitudes of love in bloom . On the up side , the film offers beautiful cinematography and solid performances by some fresh faces . On the... |
586,621 | 783,721 | 160,338 | 6 | A plaintive love it or hate it relationship flick . | Guinevere tells of a young woman ( Polley ) who leaves her stuffy family to move in with a middle aged photo-artist ( Rea ) living a bohemian lifestyle and ends up sadder but wiser . A technically and artistically good film , " Guinevere " is a coming-of-age flick tinged with more pathos that giddiness which plumbs t... |
586,290 | 783,721 | 105,306 | 6 | The grandmother of all chick flicks | Released as " Desire " on DVD , this flick is a love story about an unlikely pair of star-crossed lovers ; he a humble Scottish fisherman ( D'Onofrio ) and she a capricious intellectual ( Sacchi ) . The difference between male and female scores on IMDB . com makes this film out to be the grandmother of all chick flicks... |
587,574 | 783,721 | 206,305 | 6 | A fresh , creative , tight tale of mischief , misdeed , & misadventure | A Simple Case of Murder is a tight and clever little noirish caper comedy-drama made for commercial tv . William H . Macy , that " Fargo " guy , is at the center as a film critic who has an argument with a lady friend who slips , hits her head and dies . What follows is a slow , one step forward and two back unraveli... |
586,274 | 783,721 | 180,073 | 6 | This movie bites the big one . | So , we're to believe everyone in France speaks with an English accent ? " Quills " is a comedy / drama / whatever which tells of the disposition and antics of the Marquis de Sade after being confined to a asylum for lunatics . The film didn't work for me on any level . It was not funny , not erotic , not good drama . ... |
585,686 | 783,721 | 180,093 | 6 | A very over-rated disappointment . | Requiem . . . tells of the downward spiral of several lives into a drug induced oblivion . A much over-rated non-story which won no major awards , this extrapolation of the " Pi " mentality treads more in the the artsy-fartsy fringe than the mainstream offering an excellent performance by Burstyn , over done artistic... |
586,975 | 783,721 | 264,472 | 6 | Lug nuts and wing nuts coming unscrewed | Changing Lanes tells of two men ( Affleck & Jackson ) who get into it on an expressway where their road rage turns into a day of dirty tricks and self examination . " CL " toys with the timeless opposition of idealism and pragmatism while awkwardly tiptoeing through a misanthropic reality where everyone seems to be s... |
587,044 | 783,721 | 308,208 | 6 | Let blow up Vancouver and make a movie of it . Cool ! | In " Ballistic : Ecks vs Sever " , Agent Ecks ( Banderas ) and freelancer Sever ( Liu ) team up in this balls-to-the-wall action no-brainer to lay waste to an army of bad guys in one firestorm of hot lead , exploding ordinance , crashing cars , and airborne stuntmen after another . Though there is an underlying human d... |
587,301 | 783,721 | 112,913 | 6 | Morose and monotonous | Fallen Angels is outwardly a jittery , nervous , ambiguous , poorly filmed artie with clumsy English subtitles which appears to be a failed attempt to make up for a lack of story with moody visual style . Mostly shot with short lenses ( for fish eye type distortion ) and video which is either poor quality on purpose ... |
585,901 | 783,721 | 221,455 | 6 | Semper Fi to Hollywood . | In " One Kill " Heche , Stoltz , and Sherpard form a solid core cast around which swirl the events in this docudrama about a Marine Corps murder trial . The story of a Woman Marine ( Heche ) who shot her lover to death in her bedroom is laid out and developed by trial flick rote . As the characters begin dealing with t... |
587,619 | 783,721 | 100,928 | 6 | Typically Eastwood all the way . | A knock-off of a fictionalized recounting of eccentric film director John Huston's safari experience in Africa during the filming of African Queen , Eastwood creates and plays a peculiar quixotic and egocentric Houston-like character . As with most Eastwood films , " White Hunter , Black Heart " follows the formula for... |
585,874 | 783,721 | 147,800 | 6 | A film only a bop could love | 10 Things . . . is a typical teen campus romantic comedy romp with the usual bunch of slightly older than teen stars , a thin plot ( forget Shakespeare ) , and envelope pushing on sex innuendos required to separate the kids from the price of admission . The flick has a lively script , a bit of " tude " , and a few go... |
586,149 | 783,721 | 351,977 | 6 | Limping Tall | Walking Tall , a grossly revamped version of several previous films of the same name , all about legendary Tennessee Sheriff Burford Pusser , features " The Rock " as a badass ex-Special Forces Army sergeant who returns home to find his small town has been taken over by a local bad guy who runs rigged casino games an... |
585,957 | 783,721 | 245,090 | 6 | No cure for AD | Edges of the Lord tells of a young Jewish boy ( Osment ) who is sent to live in a rural village in Poland to escape the holocaust where he is schooled in Christianity by the local priest ( Dafoe ) and falls in with a group of pre and post pubescent kids . Full of filler and painfully slow moving at times , there's li... |
585,599 | 783,721 | 166,924 | 6 | I only have one good thing to say about this flick . . . | . . . and that's " Naomi Watts " . Lynch , in an apparent effort to stretch , appears to becomes obsessive about this noir nonsense which by all accounts is a huge movie but which exit polls at theaters would probably reveal to be a loser . Bottom line , I about fell asleep from boredom as Lynch took his own sweet time... |
587,092 | 783,721 | 118,100 | 6 | How do you say " Whatever ! " in French ? | Thieves has Techine at the helm with Deneuve and Auetuil in the spotlight and critical plaudits aplenty . However , my reaction at the end of the two hour flick was " Yeah , so ? ? ? " . Telling of the intertwined lives of a cop and his brother and a girl and her lover and a handful of other people , this character d... |
585,956 | 783,721 | 299,594 | 6 | Two ships passing in the night | Brief Crossing is all about a 30 something woman and a 16 year old boy who meet during a ferry journey across the English channel . As the ferry takes us from La Havre to Portsmouth , the characters meet , shop , drink , dance , have sex , and ultimately part at their destination . Superficially , " Brief Crossing " ... |
585,690 | 783,721 | 155,877 | 6 | A flawed pic with a good heart and sense of humor . | Mixing Nia tells of a " color blind " half black , half white New York City career woman who wrestles with her identity in a race conscious world . A light drama with " low budget indie " written all over it , " Mixing Nia " is flawed but manages a nominally good story , screenplay , and script . A little flick whose... |
586,859 | 783,721 | 126,762 | 6 | A melodramatic Victorian soap opera | The Tide of Life is a 3x45 minute TV period miniseries ( circa late 1800's ) based on the novel by prolific authoress Catherine Cookson . The film follows the life and loves of the winsome , dutiful , hard-working , and ever honest button-cute housekeeper Emily ( Gillian Kearney ) as she strives to carve a life for h... |
587,685 | 783,721 | 303,361 | 6 | Making friends the hard way | May is a dark comedy which slowly morphs into horror as it examines the increasingly twisted behavior of the title character ( Bettis ) ; a socially inept , maladjusted , frustrated . and introverted veterinary surgical tech . An obviously budget conscious one man indie , " May " is worth a look by those with a taste... |
587,631 | 783,721 | 269,281 | 6 | A fun little " sleeper " | Rock My World - a much better title than " Global Heresy " - tells of a stodgy English Lord and Lady ( O'Toole & Plowright ) who , in need of cash , play butler and maid in their country mansion to an American rock band on retreat . Most of the comedy in this earnest little " sleeper " comes from the obvious class / ... |
586,508 | 783,721 | 286,499 | 6 | Didn't work for me . | Bend it Like Beckham received good marks from critics and public alike . So , color me stoopid but I just didn't get it . The film played out like a long string of sitcom quality scenes sprinkled with Kodak moments , trailer moments , and Rocky moments in a busy format of criss-crossing plots with obvious ploys at ev... |
586,110 | 783,721 | 338,565 | 6 | The worst English language subtitling I've seen | The first half of " Love Me , Love My Money " is mildly amusing romcom fare . The second half I didn't see having abandoned the DVD because what I was seeing was not worth the effort required to read the subtitles . I've watched many subtitled films and this flick probably has the worst I've seen . The font is small , ... |
586,554 | 783,721 | 245,407 | 6 | Chick flick for 40 and up | Crush is a comedy / light-drama which tells of three middle-aged single women best friends in England , one of which , a proper school headmistress ( MacDowell ) , falls in like / love with a young former student half her age . What begins as a straight forward sexually charged Spring-Autumn romance twists and turns ... |
587,500 | 783,721 | 236,784 | 6 | A top heavy film in need of a good story . | Tailor of Panama is a well crafted floparoo . . . a comedy / drama which will make you neither laugh nor cry and tells of a British agent ( Brosnan ) who is sent to Panama where he hopefully won't be able to embarrass the British government with his self-serving spying techniques . An unfortunate exercise which doesn... |
585,984 | 783,721 | 140,397 | 6 | Quirky , tentative , unpredictable , lighthearted fun . | Mumford is an unpretentious little romantic comedy with a softspoken , creative way of whetting curiosity and maintaining interest as it wends it's way through it's quirky but charming storyline . Sans the usual commercial " chick flick " schmaltz and boasting an R-rating , " Mumford " appears to refuse to compromise... |
585,768 | 783,721 | 109,491 | 6 | If you don't like this film , check-off ! | Sally and her uncle work a sheep ranch in rural Australia , circ 1920 something . Along comes stiff and stilted Dad ( Blakemore ) and stepmum Debbie ( Scacchi ) . Toss in a roaming physician , some hired help , etc . and you've got " All in the Family in the Outback " . Personalities clash , eccentricities entangle , a... |
586,423 | 783,721 | 299,535 | 6 | Kudos ! | Big Shot . . . is a little comedy with a big message which takes the audience on a fun ride with Krumholtz as a savvy college student who plays life fast and loose and gets caught up in making book on sporting events only to find the money comes easy but the problems come easier . In the end , the film turns serious ... |
586,528 | 783,721 | 295,743 | 6 | A well done bit of nothing | Friday Night is a slow moving bit of relatively uneventful voyeurism in which the camera follows a woman around observing her activities during one Friday night . In the first twenty minutes you'll see Laure ( Lemercier ) pack up her belongings , bathe , dress , get in her car , hit the bricks , and get bogged down i... |
587,070 | 783,721 | 118,044 | 6 | Melodrama without the melo | Unhook the Stars is all about Rowlands who plays a middle aged widow with grown kids who wakes up one day to find herself no longer needed as a wife and mother . An uneventful and even character study which builds enough interest in the Rowlands character to make it not too difficult to overlook her supporting cast w... |
585,969 | 783,721 | 104,693 | 6 | The only way to get more real the this is to get real . | Laws of Gravity is a hyper-realistic docudrama and an excellent clinic on the loser mentality of the mean streets of Brooklyn . Focusing on the tribal order of several white urban hoodlums , this flick is about as real as it gets with actors . . . many of whom are on their first outing . A good watch for those into r... |
587,221 | 783,721 | 245,501 | 6 | An okay film about a rape victim coming to terms with her past . | Things . . . tells of a thirty-something club singer and alcoholic who still suffers the trauma of a rape at age 14 and the attempt of an unwilling participant in the rape ( sound unlikely ? ) to seek a belated resolution to his misdeed . The film doggedly pours over the suffering of the victim , her trauma and its m... |
585,765 | 783,721 | 113,305 | 6 | This flick makes you wonder if the film makers ever went to college . | Higher Learning is a predictable and contrived handful of college campus stereotypes all involved in worst case scenarios on the same campus at the same time with little purpose . The film explores such issues as partying and date rape , tuition and academic problems , social problems , gangs , frats , etc . all with... |
585,995 | 783,721 | 289,848 | 6 | More of the same . | Analyze That , the first sequel to " Analyze This " is just more of the same . Of course , if you liked the original , that would be a good thing . If not . . . not . Crystal continues as the reluctant shrink while DeNiro continues a the mob boss with issues in this madcap attempt to capitalize on the success of " . ... |
585,925 | 783,721 | 113,326 | 6 | For Chan fans only | Rumble in the Bronx is one of Hong Kong martial arts celebrity Jackie Chan's earlier forays into the US market . And , since Chan has been getting better with age , his films have , with few exceptions , become progressively better with time . Therefore , the best way to watch Chan flicks is in reverse chronological ... |
587,598 | 783,721 | 295,701 | 6 | The Xander Zone if for the loading and unloading of teen boys only | XXX is an extension of the nominally successful male juvi exploitation flick " Fast and Furious " with the bald ugly guy with muscles on his tattoos playing a secret agent who's out to save the planet from your average " Dr . Evil " nemesis while impressing the hell out of babe-alicious Argento . A sort of " Bond for... |
586,861 | 783,721 | 210,756 | 6 | Medium rare restaurant dramady | In The Weeds is a mediocre ensemble dramady repartee-fest about the staff of a restaurant and their activities during one night's dinner rush . The film offers a solid journeyman cast of familiar faces but relies too much on snappy patter and clever comebacks while trying to build a storyline that is marginal at best... |
587,165 | 783,721 | 91,844 | 6 | An enjoyable thought-provoking and entertaining TV drama | Resting Place tells of an Army officer ( Lithgow ) who accompanies the body of a black Vietnam war hero home for burial only to find the cemetery is segregated and the body is shrouded in mystery . A well cast journeyman TV drama , " Resting Place " is a thoughtful and poignant exploration of one man's search for tru... |
586,505 | 783,721 | 87,414 | 6 | So-so | The Hit is about two gangsters ( Hurt & Roth ) who kidnap an informer ( Stamp ) in Spain and transport him by car back to France where they intend to settle a 10 year old score . In the process they kidnap a beautiful senorita ( del Sol ) , kill some people , and generally do a sloppy job of getting from point-A to p... |
587,187 | 783,721 | 252,076 | 6 | Entertaining and forgettable | In " Maid in Manhattan " , Lopez plays an ethnic NYC single mom and hotel maid who falls for an urbane politician ( Fiennes ) making this flick just another Cinderella knock-off . The film manages to push the right buttons in between awkward moments in spite of being uninspired flotsam in the grand scheme of cinema . S... |
586,429 | 783,721 | 155,723 | 6 | An honest , earnest simple story | A Good Baby is a simple story about simple people and how they deal with a not so simple problem . Set in a backwood hollow of Eastern KY's Appalachia , this slow moving and laconic film accurately portrays its location and people as it plods earnestly through its 90 minute run . Many may find this story lacking in s... |
587,647 | 783,721 | 221,799 | 6 | Okay for sentimentalists but nothing special | Little Suzi is left with foster parents in Hungary while they immigrate to the USA and then rejoins them sometime later leaving emotional ties behind . Big Suzi is a typical teen living with her natural parents in the US , throwing temper tantrums , and wondering who to call " Mom " and where to call " Home " . Suzi ta... |
587,124 | 783,721 | 140,447 | 6 | Mediocre , wandering , ill-focused quasi-biopic | The Passion of Ayn Rand picks up the story of the best selling author and intellectual after " The Fountainhead " and continues through the publishing of " Atlas Shrugged " . Although the film spends about equal time between the bio of the brittle and eccentric Rand ( Mirren ) and the sundry affairs of her closest fr... |
585,797 | 783,721 | 104,558 | 6 | Stuntfest | Supercop is a cut above the early Chan Hong Kong flicks and a cut below the later Chan flicks ( eg : " Rush Hour " , " Shanghai Noon " , etc . ) The film is an ordinary comedy / action flick with some innovative stunt work which gets off to a slow start with a messy bunch of nonsense and builds to a stuntfest on par ... |
587,424 | 783,721 | 364,725 | 6 | Still more Stiller | Dodgeball is another Stiller formula comedy which packs wacky characters and silly stereotypes into a story about a glitzy state-of-the-art health club owner ( Stiller ) who wants to add a failing garage gym , owned and operated by Vaughn , to his empire . Unwilling to give up his small time but nerd-friendly operati... |
586,237 | 783,721 | 171,580 | 6 | A film only a soap junkie could love . | Nurse Betty , the Zellweger title character , is a passive , ordinary Kansas housewife who believes herself to be romantically involved with a soap opera character after being traumatized by witnessing the brutal murder of her husband . This much over-rated flick will disappoint many as the violence and language dema... |
586,647 | 783,721 | 264,761 | 6 | Fun and sincere new-edge girl stuff | Kissing Jessica Stein is all about Manhattan and Jewish and single and female and dating and one woman who finds love in the arms of another woman and then has to figure out if she's gay and " comes out " . . . not necessarily in that order . A sincere , fun frolic full of hip girl talk and girl stuff , " Kissing . .... |
587,437 | 783,721 | 104,549 | 6 | Good popcorn flick for sofa spuds . | Jennifer 8 is a decade old noirish whodunit which tells of a burned out L . A . detective ( Garcia ) who moves to a small town force where he finds himself obsessed with a serial killer case and in love with a potential victim . A good old fashioned suspense-mystery , " J8 " is a solid watch which features good cast ... |
587,352 | 783,721 | 104,545 | 6 | Pork-que ? | A young Penelope Cruz is the centerpiece of " Jamon , Jamon " , a comedy / drama which doesn't manage to conjure up much of either . The flick is busy enough as it wanders through moments of melodrama and mild humor and the presentation is okay . However , there's a little too much ham in the ham in this flick about a ... |
585,718 | 783,721 | 160,009 | 6 | A reasonably good , high energy action flick . | In " The Art of War " , Snipes plays a UN deep-cover operative whose cover is compromised . Though the film features plenty of stunts , chases , crashes , shootouts , fights , and pyrotechnics mixed with a typically convoluted spy-type plot , we've seen better of all in other films . The flick does have a female protag... |
587,375 | 783,721 | 294,279 | 6 | Cat's in the cradle . . . | A Loving Father tells of a writer who is en route to pick up his Nobel prize when his trip is interrupted by an estranged son . This road trip flick focuses on the real life father / son Depardieu duo as it meanders through a spotty mire of family dysfunction issues . The sometimes engaging story is fraught with mome... |
586,050 | 783,721 | 187,078 | 6 | In a word . . . disappointing . | Ever see a bunch of cop cars chasing someone around the streets of L . A . ? How many times ? Ten ? A hundred ? Well , you're gonna see it again ( in Long Beach / San Pedro ) . " Gone . . " , an unoriginal and top heavy flick , sports a budget-busting and talented cast which it wastes as it fails to deliver on all leve... |
585,684 | 783,721 | 190,865 | 6 | Lot of flaws and lots of thrills . | Vertical Limit begins with a bang , bogs down a bit as it develops it contrived story , and then builds to one harrowing mountain climbing situation after another . Good old fashioned melodramatic escapism , this flick is a typical Hollywood product with many obvious flaws . However , if you turn off your brain and g... |
586,288 | 783,721 | 286,716 | 6 | Kid stuff | The Hulk is an obvious and simple minded effects-fest with a plot which is about as substantive as a Sunday morning cartoon . The film offers a good cast , excellent effects , and a whole bunch of surreal pseudoscientific nonsense built around a silly story line in which the good are nauseatingly good and the bad are... |
586,031 | 783,721 | 260,991 | 6 | A movie with a latitude | Joint Security Area takes place entirely at the Panmunjom , Korea DMZ peace village ( a mockup thereof ) at the 38th parallel border crossing where North and South Koreans face off with a 24x7x365 military presence engaged in a tense show of force held in check by a 50 year old treaty . The film tells of the shooting... |
585,998 | 783,721 | 360,009 | 6 | Objects in this movie may seems closer than they are . . . . | . . . depending on barometric pressure . In " Spartan " , Kilmer plays a badass who is a kind of " Swiss Army knife " of paramilitary agent types who has to help the Secret Service track down the kidnapped daughter of a high ranking USA government official . The film has some twisty-turny stuff in the story backbone an... |
586,088 | 783,721 | 303,110 | 6 | If you got the hamburger , we got the fire . | Superfire tells of a raging forest fire from both the perspective of some innocents caught up in the blaze and the smoke jumpers and pilots who fight it . A melodramatic and obvious B-flick , what " Superfire " lacks in class , sophistication , and budget , it makes up for in busy-ness . For example , you got your he... |
586,726 | 783,721 | 113,613 | 6 | A okay dark comedy with a message . | Three male and two female liberal grad students have right-wingers over for dinner , poison them , and bury them in the back yard . An ok film which becomes somewhat redundant with all the ultra-conservative stereotypical dinner guests espousing the opinions we just love to hate , " TLS " does wind up well and makes an... |
587,218 | 783,721 | 179,626 | 6 | Overwrought nonsense | 15 Minutes tells of a couple of eastern European immigrants in NYC who go on a killing spree , video taping their murders so that they can get book and movie deals after being acquitted on an insanity plea . Yeah , right ! This flick is ridiculous , preposterous nonsense with a smattering of romance , a taste of sex ... |
586,327 | 783,721 | 201,840 | 6 | The way is Monk-ey business . | The Cup is a lighthearted look inside a Buddhist monastery and the lives of some young expatriated Tibetan Monk soccer fans . This simple story is told in a simple way with a serenity not often found in western films . Some will find this film's slow pace tedious while others will appreciate a rare look at an esoteri... |
587,660 | 783,721 | 113,552 | 6 | B . A . D . | B-movie tough guy Caruso leads the way in this convoluted crime drama as an exfelon-turned-good-guy who gets caught in a web of intrigue between the right and wrong sides of the law . Replete with familiar faces , this film has little else to offer with a kludge of a screen play and atmospherics and camera work right f... |
587,465 | 783,721 | 325,055 | 6 | Sylvia who ? | Sylvia drags through long , tedious , plaintive gulps of the life of poet Sylvia Plath ( 1932-1963 ) in a self-involved attempt to wallow in the angst , woe , and misery of a relatively obscure writer . Having never heard of Plath before , I was able to learn more about her in 10 minutes on the Internet than in 100 m... |
587,377 | 783,721 | 356,150 | 6 | A flick only a teenager could love | Eurotrip tells of the misadventures of a High School grad who learns his German e-mail pen pal is a babe and not a dude and travels to Europe with 3 friends ( 2 guys + 1 girl ) to hook up with her . The result is a no brainer comedy romp chock full of all the stuff an 18 year old would like to see / do in Europe . . ... |
586,794 | 783,721 | 117,773 | 6 | An excellent film but lacking something . | The Substance of Fire is a slice of life film which tells of a small time New York Jewish holocaust-survivor book publishing purist and authoritarian patriarch to his adult children ; two sons , one daughter . The slice has to do with the slow disintegration of his family owned publishing business and his mental heal... |
586,898 | 783,721 | 290,095 | 6 | Stir fried , not shaken . | The Tuxedo sticks Chan in the center of a convoluted 007ish plot involving a tux which gives the wearer super human capability , a bunch of bugs which turn water into a dehydrating substance ( go figure ) , and , of course , an evil guy who's going to take over the world by selling everyone pure bottled water . . . h... |
585,945 | 783,721 | 92,104 | 6 | Was the kid a PITA or what ? | Touch and Go is all about Keaton as an aloof , materialistic , all business Hockey star who becomes involved with his antithetical female counterpart though happenstance ; a down-on-her-luck babe ( Alonso ) with an unruly street kid . At issue : Will they be able to bridge their chasm differences and find happiness ?... |
587,185 | 783,721 | 100,594 | 6 | 70 % travelogue , 30 % story | The Sheltering Sky tells of a married couple ( Malkovich / Winger ) whose post-WWII travels in Northern Africa become an odyssey of self discovery . Beautifully filmed and imbued with the sights and sounds of Morocco while telling its thin , plaintive story , the film makes a better travelogue than drama . A good wat... |
586,023 | 783,721 | 265,116 | 6 | Rocky in a tutu doesn't does not equal dramady | Chaos is a subtitled French flick about a middle aged couple who make no effort to help a street hooker who is being beaten by three men . As this dramedy unfolds , the wife finds the hooker in the hospital , helps nurse her back to health , and thus begins a long relationship which carriers them into a variety of si... |
585,608 | 783,721 | 260,866 | 6 | Suspense by the numbers | Don't Say a Word is the usual Hollywood formula suspense product from the middle of the top tier . Douglas plays a psychiatrist who must wrest a secret from the mind of a disturbed young woman as ransom for his daughter . Although the film doesn't distinguish itself in any way it does push all the right buttons and m... |
585,665 | 783,721 | 100,602 | 6 | Once again Cain proves he is able . | Anyone who has ever wished an annoying person in their life would just disappear will vicariously enjoy Graham Marshall ( Cain ) in the sardonic comedy " Shock to the System " who , belittled at home and passed over at the office , decides to take control of his destiny by eliminating those interfering with his happine... |
587,483 | 783,721 | 360,130 | 6 | A good film with a marginal story | Undertow is a drama about a feud between a hardworking father with two sons and his brother which boils over and sends the boys on the run . This well staged and directed film languishes between the few dramatic moments which constitute its meager story and squanders its time on the mundane melancholy of the hardwork... |
586,066 | 783,721 | 303,243 | 6 | Sometimes you just gotta go with it . | Happy Times , a small time comedy out of China , tells of a less than successful middle-aged man who is desperately seeking a wife and finds a " daughter " instead . A lilting and sweetly sentimental comedy , this flick has a quirky kind of charm which defies description . I personally became completely bewitched by ... |
586,866 | 783,721 | 317,198 | 6 | Just another sequel | Bridget Jone : The Edge of Reason has Zelleweger reprising her role as the socially inept , unflappable , and pudgy British journalist in the company of her co-stars ( Firth , Grant ) while breaking no new ground but rather pushing the story forward with a grunt and a groan and an obvious lack of fresh creativity . W... |
587,127 | 783,721 | 95,801 | 6 | Peculiar but charming little slow-starter . | Bagdad Cafe tells of a stout , laconic female German tourist who abandons her husband in the middle of California's Mohave desert and wanders into a ramshackle truck stop where she proceeds to quietly do a sort of Tony Robbins transformation of its eccentric inhabitants . A plodding slow-starter , this flick requires... |
587,175 | 783,721 | 144,550 | 6 | Typical Benjamin . Good but could have been better . | Richard Benjamin retells " The Pentagon Wars " story with an HBO budget and a mockumentary style in this examination of one of the Pentagon's more embarrassing faux pas ; oversight of the R & D of what's come to be known as the Bradley Troop Carrier and Fighting Vehicle . An okay bit of entertainment , this film could ... |
587,512 | 783,721 | 312,841 | 6 | Killing with kindness doesn't always work . | The Way Home is a simple Korean fable with a simple moral which is so well intentioned that to criticize it would seem irreverent . Nonetheless , the film is too simple for a 90 minute run unless you have time for the modicum of entertainment it provides and a moral which trite at best . A pleasing watch for those pe... |
587,112 | 783,721 | 210,567 | 6 | A kinda , sorta cute comedy / lite-drama | Beautiful tells of a girl's life-long quest to become a beauty queen with Driver playing the adult version of the central figure . The film begins as a fresh , fun , and creative comedy romp but turns a little too serious in the middle wandering haphazardly into the drama genre while conjuring up a whole bit about a ... |
587,271 | 783,721 | 391,024 | 6 | A mediocre documentary with powerful subject matter | Control Room offers Arab views and perspectives of the war in Iraq with candid footage from the controversial Qatar-based Arab Al Jazeera TV network studios to the Central Command media center to the fighting in the streets of Baghdad . In spite of marginal production value , no narration , no show & tell diagrams or... |
585,748 | 783,721 | 118,015 | 6 | French-speakers only | Un Air de Famille is a French comedy involving nonstop dialogue which relies substantially on verbiage , context and inflection for humor ; the worst kind of film for subtitles . I encountered considerable difficulty while trying to read the subtitles , keep track of who said what , grasp the subtle humor , and follo... |
586,816 | 783,721 | 365,020 | 6 | Very ordinary | Everyday People is a lukewarm HBO product which takes us into a day in the life of a handful of mostly Afro-Am people who are interconnected by their relationship to a Brooklyn neighborhood restaurant which is about to be bought out by corporate interests in a block-wide urban development project . You'll get to see ... |
587,145 | 783,721 | 241,223 | 6 | I'd like the make a withdrawal , please . . . and hurry ! | The Bank teams a math whiz kid ( Wenham ) and his proprietary computer program which can accurately predict stock market trends with a ruthless bank CEO ( LaPaglia ) as they set about to make an obscene fortune at the expense of widespread econimic ruination . The film focuses on the institution everyone loves to hat... |
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