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2,600 | Underneath the achingly beautiful surface, a sense of opportunities lost and roads not taken often lurks. | positive |
2,601 | Somewhere in here, there's a pretty decent movie. | negative |
2,602 | Sweet but not sentimental, sad but not cynical, Two For Joy is a welcome new take on a British realism with disarmingly impressive performances from its young cast. | positive |
2,603 | The theme seems to be a kind of late-Edwardian Euro whimsy along Wodehousian lines... except that Wodehouse was really funny, and Anderson really isn't. | negative |
2,604 | This one captured my eye as well as my intrigue for this continuing storyline in ways I had not anticipated | positive |
2,605 | If you're going to remake a classic movie, The Wolfman is an excellent example of how to do it right. | positive |
2,606 | While Confession of a Burning Man manages to accurately capture the Burning Man spirit, it falls just short of capturing the entire Burning Man experience. | positive |
2,607 | Required viewing for anyone who thinks the modern media created the social ills that accost us so frequently today. | positive |
2,608 | Contemplative study of the basis of man and purpose and it explores that theme with consistency and integrity. | positive |
2,609 | A masterpiece that merges the Bard's bittersweet wisdom with the wit, style, and idealism of '30s Hollywood musicals. | positive |
2,610 | No, I don't want no Skrull A Skrull is a guy that can't get no love from Kree Hangin' out the earthbound side Of an Accuser's ride Trying to holler at Fury | positive |
2,611 | With her declarative snap and ability to go for the jugular, Thompson truly seems like a born talk-show host. Even when she's just riffing, she grounds "Late Night" in something real. | positive |
2,612 | The heart of Hogan's film is in the right place, and Collette is masterful as an agent of anarchy. | positive |
2,613 | An important, heart-soaring record of a group of incredibly brave people doing something almost everyone would tell them is impossible. | positive |
2,614 | Through the years, [it's] become genre classic of its own. | positive |
2,615 | Aronofsky rewrites the language of film to create a dizzying journey into the abyss. The best film of 2000. | positive |
2,616 | begins as a fairly intriguing study of alienation, only to end up as a far-fetched "let's get outta here!" thriller. ... Ruby proves to be so adept at last-minute disappearances, you'd think her grandfather was Houdini. | negative |
2,617 | Diner is a funny, affectionate film... If you're over 30, you may be surprised to remember what a drab era it was and hopeful that men will never again be as dense. | positive |
2,618 | The Intern is an insubstantial Nancy Meyers comedy kept afloat by Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway's screen chemistry. | positive |
2,619 | Surprising, sweet and charming, David Wain proves himself a comic director par excellence. | positive |
2,620 | Paradise Now stands as evidence of troubled and troubling times. | positive |
2,621 | In all honesty, what I would have rather watched than this sometimes confusing film was a film strictly about the woman that inspired the Freda character. It seems like it would have been a more inspiring story. | negative |
2,622 | If you are an extreme sports junkie, Point Break is cocaine. If you are a fan of good writing, it's a placebo. | negative |
2,623 | Although this stylish and ominously paced vehicle starts with a full itinerary, it never makes a vital connection. | positive |
2,624 | It may not be the most original comedy ever, but what Role Models lacks in originality of concept, it makes up for in the natural wittiness of its actors. | positive |
2,625 | The idea of a single-take shot may suggest something static, but Berberich's camera glides through scenes, helping the viewer to not only concentrate on what is being said, but also allowing us time to consider these thoughts at a normal pace. | positive |
2,626 | A high-end version of one of those direct-to-video kids' movies that play on the Disney Channel all throughout October, all cobwebbed tombstones behind iron cemetery gates and dead leaves crunching underfoot. | positive |
2,627 | The horror here is derived from an inability to cope, to gain closure, to accept that, despite what mainstream movies tell us, not every loose end in life ties itself up in an immaculate bow. | positive |
2,628 | This film has plenty of bad attitude for sale, but the black humor only delivers sporadically on the laughs. | negative |
2,629 | If John Wick is Buster Keaton, [Odenkirk's] Hutch is Harold Lloyd. | positive |
2,630 | What’s stifling for [its lead] Ana is the mark of a taut drama in which the political becomes personal in unshakeable ways. | positive |
2,631 | As far as live-action reimaginings of fairy tales are concerned, this is one of the more inventive ones and is unquestionably better than 2011's Red Riding Hood misfire. | positive |
2,632 | "12 Years a Slave" works on so many levels -- some topical, some timeless -- that it's almost impossible to count them. | positive |
2,633 | Curious paring of Williams and Altman in a live action adaptation of the famous cartoon. Altman's odd sound techniques are not well suited for the material. | positive |
2,634 | While this feels like familiar territory for Baumbach, he manages to deliver something that feels at least a little fresh, thanks in part to the capabilities of the extraordinary ensemble. | positive |
2,635 | The movie has a few perky, funny moments, but Slade is determined to stretch things out until one no longer cares what happens to his star-crossed lovers. | negative |
2,636 | The complexity might require a second viewing, but there is compensation in the realistic acting by a cast of non-pros and the eye-grabbing, hand-held lensing by Boaz Yehonatan Yacov. | positive |
2,637 | If this is what Park Chan-wook can bring to the American film world, then hopefully he will stay for a very long time. | positive |
2,638 | This lavish Spanish production begins to plod after a brisk, lively first half. | negative |
2,639 | A smart, provocative chiller with a strong perspective. | positive |
2,640 | he General is the highlight of his career's tragicomic performances, featuring not just the awe-inspiring stunts that were his bread and butter, but also a level of fluidity only he and Chaplin attained at the top of their games. | positive |
2,641 | There's a better movie to be made that combines the talents of everyone involved but You People isn't it. | negative |
2,642 | Isn't It Romantic earns its place in the pantheon of romantic comedies. [Full review in Spanish] | positive |
2,643 | It's certainly not for everyone -- basically, the embodiment of "art house cinema" -- but those into the dark, the quirky and the risqu should find plenty to appreciate. | positive |
2,644 | Diesel isn't amusing, so he merely comes off as a showy actor in a bad wig. | negative |
2,645 | The real Mars may be nothing like it appears in this movie, but it sure does make you want to visit anyway. | positive |
2,646 | One gets the feeling that a lot of the meaning of this film ended up on the cutting room floor. | negative |
2,647 | It successfully takes on the theme from Gaslight. | positive |
2,648 | A strong piece of mass market filmmaking. | positive |
2,649 | Tonya's hardships were depicted with straightforwardness; however, the film's narrative was not so effective, perennially wobbling between the cheaply dramatic and the absurdly comic. | negative |
2,650 | Casino Royale is right up there with my favourite films, let alone Bond films. Well paced, well shot, well acted and lots of fun and clever nods to past Bond-isms. Top marks. | positive |
2,651 | A gripping, provocative documentary. | positive |
2,652 | The zombie film has never been so funny or so cool. | positive |
2,653 | The theft itself, and the subsequent (overdone) trial scene that functions as its prologue and aftermath, are in many ways secondary to the film’s humane charms. What’s best about The Duke are its witty grace notes. | positive |
2,654 | Forgettable Tom Hanks comedy made early on. | negative |
2,655 | Even though its a little predictable, this uncomplicated story captures your atention from the beginning. [Full review in Spanish] | positive |
2,656 | Robert Downey, Jr.'s effortlessly nuanced performance as Tony Stark is a dark delight that combines pop-culture wit and genuine emotional depth. | positive |
2,657 | F9 is a stupendously stupid movie. Total nonsense. Bombastic and, forgive the pun, ludicrous. But I'd be lying if I didn't say I had a lot of fun watching it. I now support multi-million-dollar goofball productions. | positive |
2,658 | They're not too old for this shit. | positive |
2,659 | While it may not be exactly the movie that die-hard Paranormal Activity fans may be expecting, the fact that Next of Kin plays around with expectations in such a clever way here works in the film's favor. | positive |
2,660 | What a better cinematic palette we would have if stars wielded their clout like this more often." | positive |
2,661 | Polemical as it is, Death in Sarajevo is a hotel movie, one that fluidly entertains even as it educates. | positive |
2,662 | The film's family entertainment value is of a high standard. I still would have hoped that there could have been something more in here. | negative |
2,663 | A much-needed wake-up call to face the fact that state-sanctioned usury and exorbitant late fees are destroying the prospects of working class citizens of ever achieving anything approaching the American Dream. | positive |
2,664 | Landais has made a version of "Aspern" that is too often uncertain and unconvincing despite the good work of his female stars. | negative |
2,665 | A bona fide Third World thriller that deserves to be seen without all the prejudicial baggage and BS that has swirled around the movie for the last few months. | positive |
2,666 | 2018's Halloween is a great addition to the Halloween franchise, and by cutting off all of the previously existing sequels, it's able to not only make Michael Myers a true creature of terror, but also comments, subtly, on the current true crime culture. | positive |
2,667 | A bold (and lovely) experiment that will almost certainly bore most audiences into their own brightly colored dreams. | negative |
2,668 | The Christina Applegate renaissance is in serious jeopardy. | negative |
2,669 | The script, co-written by Seidelman, based on her mother Florence's adventures in a butterfly-balloted suburban retirement community, feels like it was written by Neil Simon on a bad comb-over day. | negative |
2,670 | Even when Yard occasionally becomes too hammy for words, or the "evil" performances cross into cartoon, the film remains an overwhelmingly infectious experience. | positive |
2,671 | Parker uses the same overbearing touch in David Gale that he did in Angela's Ashes and Mississippi Burning. | negative |
2,672 | Doesn't amount to much. | negative |
2,673 | Give me a Shaun action-figure tie-in over Minions Tic-Tacs or Icees any day. | positive |
2,674 | A sensitive and cumulatively moving account of private grief in the aftermath of very public atrocity. | positive |
2,675 | While it lacks Spider-Man's emotional wallop, X2: X-Men United represents the purest translation of comic book action to the big screen. | positive |
2,676 | The screenplay by Robert A Stemmie and Karl Hartl both plays the game...and acknowledges that [Holmes and Watson] are fictional creations. | positive |
2,677 | It takes a village to burn itself to the ground, and no one is better at contextualizing such huge events, and structuring the information into a clear and transparent narrative, than documentarian Alex Gibney. | positive |
2,678 | An unusually pitched portrait of a culinary genius from the Gordon Ramsay school of shouty chefs who needs to learn to, like, chill out. But that high energy never fully translates to the screen. | negative |
2,679 | A feeble call to arms, and inept entertainment to boot. | negative |
2,680 | It's marked by fine performances from a great cast, but it's hard to escape the fact that The Debt takes itself very, very seriously, to its own detriment. | positive |
2,681 | From opening to closing credits, there isn't a single genuine moment. | negative |
2,682 | In practice Lee doesn't quite handle this vertiginous tone switch. | negative |
2,683 | The first film in terms of Oscar hopefuls this year that can truly be considered a contender. | positive |
2,684 | Whether it's a product of the city's laid-back, party-hearty nature or a fault of the filmmaking, Sons makes for a pleasant sit but doesn't really have the substance to deliver the aimed-for tenor of inspirational struggle. | negative |
2,685 | As the hard-boiled professional fisherman who gives his ample ingenuity to a cause, Mr. Bogart is almost as impressive as he was as Rick, the Casablanca host. | positive |
2,686 | All is covered with Altman's own winning sense of humour and perspective which is what transforms what might otherwise have been a banal biographic doc into something a little more compelling. | positive |
2,687 | A magnificent reimagining of the classic Christmas tale filled with beauty and magic, but most importantly, it's a tale that gives strength, power and intelligence to the lead character, a girl, Clara. | positive |
2,688 | Even at 89 minutes, you can feel the oxygen running out of this movie. | negative |
2,689 | The brilliance with this one is pretty subtle, which ought to make it a film you want to watch over and over again. | positive |
2,690 | The ensuing action-adventure may promise more than it ultimately delivers but remains fun for long periods. | positive |
2,691 | What mitigates this willful narrative vagueness are the performances. | positive |
2,692 | Alex Tse's script adheres to the basic outline of the original while sprinkling in some fresh touches. Director X nimbly moves the various chess pieces of the plot about while showing a distinctive flair for outlandish action sequences. | positive |
2,693 | ...this is a superb cast that knows how to put the right spin on clever dialogue - even when they're playing thinly drawn characters in a dated and unnecessary story. | negative |
2,694 | Brie Larson's directorial debut Unicorn Store is a wonderful debut, a film full of great laughs, terrific performances, clever observations, and a huge, rainbow-coloured heart. | positive |
2,695 | With family comedies so few and far between, it's a pity this one couldn't have been better. | negative |
2,696 | "Run Lola Run" is the music video you've been dreaming for movies to be. | positive |
2,697 | For every laudable moment in Never Look Away where the filmmaker finds truth in his characters and their reality, there's another that removes us so far from caring for them that it's hard to find our way back. | positive |
2,698 | Timely, taut, spellbinding and surprisingly heartwarming. It might be the most important documentary about Israeli-Palestinian relations since Promises. | positive |
2,699 | Shouldn't therapy, at least in art for or about childhood, be fun? The book was entrancing. The book deserved better. Happily there is still time, before the world ends, for someone else to film it. For now: return to Sendak. | negative |