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carrying this wafer-thin movie on his nimble shoulders , chan wades through putrid writing , direction and timing with a smile that says , 'if i stay positive , maybe i can channel one of my greatest pictures , drinking master . ' | 0 |
. . . spellbinding amusement and subtly exploitative . | 1 |
remember the kind of movie we were hoping " ecks vs . sever " or " xxx " was vanishing to be ? this is it . | 1 |
enjoy a can of 2-day immemorial coke . you can taste it , but there's no fizz . | 0 |
mr . deeds is sure to give you a lot of laughs in this simple , sugary and melodrama comic . | 1 |
leap the film and buy the philip glass soundtrack cd . | 0 |
a straight-ahead engrossing that never rises above superficiality . | 0 |
arguably a better celebration of these unfairly dismissed heroes would be a film that isn't this painfully forced , false and forges . | 0 |
streamlined to a tight , brisk 85-minute screwball thriller , " big trouble " is funny , blameless and as substantial as a tub of popcorn with extra butter . | 1 |
there are malfunctions , but also stretches of affect and moments of awe ; we're compacted up in the characters , how they make their choices , and why . | 1 |
disturbed , overlong documentary about 'the life . ' | 0 |
what could and should have been biting and droll is instead a tepid losing of time and talent . | 0 |
if you recognize zeus ( the dog from snatch ) it will achieve you wish you were at home watching that movie instead of in the theater watching this one . | 0 |
an amusing , breezily uninterested documents about life on the campaigning trail . | 1 |
[mediocrity] devotes a valiant effort to understand everyone's point of view , and he does such a good job of it that family fundamentals gets you riled up . | 1 |
against the end sum of all fears morphs into a worldly '70s calamities flick . | 0 |
nation lampoon's van wilder could be the worst thing to come out of national lampoon since class reunification | 0 |
it's fitfully entertaining but never really takes off . | 0 |
i watched the asinine insanity of no such thing with mounting disbelief . | 0 |
woefully arrogant . | 0 |
i'm assure there's a teenage boy out there somewhere who's dying for this kind of entertainment . | 0 |
it may not be a great piece of filmmaking , but its potency comes from its soul's-eye view of how well-meaning patronizing masked a social injustice , at weaker as represented by this case . | 1 |
it is scott's believable portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its prettiness . | 1 |
conversely ardent it may be , the rising place never quite justifies its own existence . | 0 |
if you grew up on scooby -- you'll amore this movie . matthew lillard is born to play shaggy ! | 1 |
no amount of blood and dismantling vampire cadavers can obscure this movie's scarcity of ideals . | 0 |
if it's alia regurgitated action films you're after , there's no better film than half past dead . | 0 |
beaulieu spends too much time regretting in bibi's generic angst ( there are a lot of shots of her gazing out windows ) . | 0 |
auteur/director burr steers emphasizes the q in quirky , with mixed results . | 0 |
some of the computer animation is handsome , and divergent amusing sidekicks add much-needed levity to the otherwise bleak tale , but overall the film never rises above mediocrity . | 0 |
astonishingly dopey . | 0 |
i can't assert this enough : this movie is about an mature male dressed in pink pjs . | 0 |
the central anecdote lacks punch . | 0 |
i faced knockaround guys yesterday , and now the details have vaporized adore photographs from the spanish-american war . . . it's so unmemorable that it turned my ballpoint notes to invisible ink . | 0 |
you stunned why enough wasn't just a music videotaped rather than a full-length movie . | 0 |
the journey around redemption sees more like a cinematic experiment than a full-blown kino . | 0 |
blowing all the 'classic' out of robert louis stevenson's treasure island and fulfill the void with sci-fi video game graphics and disney-fied adolescent angst . . . | 0 |
a anaemic pace and scarcity of genuine narrative hem the movie in every bit as much as life hems in the spirits of these young women . | 0 |
. . . amazingly inert for a movie in which the main character travels back and forth between epochs . | 0 |
[n忙s] directed the stage version of elling , and gets resplendent performer from his two leads who originated the characters on stage . | 1 |
partway through watching this cutesy , easter-egg-colored concoction , you realize that it is made up of three episodes of a rejected tv show . | 0 |
this is a startling cinematographic , a one-of-a-kind tour de kraft . | 1 |
deepa mathur provides an disposable prelude as well as some intelligent observations on the success of bollywood in the western world . | 1 |
lauren ambrose comes alive under the attention from two strangers in town - with sincere performances and pragmatist interaction between the characters , this is a coming-of-age anecdote with a spinning . | 1 |
fun but not more than recaptured jock piffle . | 0 |
is an neuralgia strive at directing by callie khouri . i had to look away - this was gods awful . | 0 |
provides the kind of 'laugh therapy' i need from movie comedies -- offbeat humor , amusing characters , and a contented ending . after seeing 'analyze that , ' i feel better already . | 1 |
a woozy , roisterous , straining anarchy , and the off-beat casting of its two leads turns out to be as ill-starred as you might expect . | 0 |
it's languid and predictable , and laughs are lacking . | 0 |
routinely melodramatic , it's also extremely meaningful . | 1 |
plummer kidnaps the demonstrating without resorting to camp as nicholas' wounded and wounding uncle ralph . it's a great performance and a remembered of dickens' luster . | 1 |
strictly a 'guy's film' in the biggest sense of the expression . | 0 |
it's a ripper of a yarn and i for one enjoyed the thrill of the chill . naomi watts is terrific as rachel ; her petite frame and weak persona emphasising her plight and segregated . | 1 |
a highly intriguing starred , coupled with some crafty plot appliance and some adorned built settings . . it's a laudable tutorial in quantum physics and slash-dash | 1 |
a earning comedy with its wry observations about long-lived friendships and the ways in which we all lose track of ourselves by trying to please others . | 1 |
it is not a mass-market entertainment but an unbending attempt by one artist to think about another . | 1 |
a backdrop , engaging comedy that fumbles away almost all of its accumulated enjoyment with a crucial third act miscalculation . | 0 |
the climactic events are so too realized that you may forget all about the original conflict , just like the movie does | 1 |
it apt be a somewhat backhanded compliment to say that the film makes the viewer feel like the movie's various victimized audience members after a while , but it also happens to be the movie's most resplendent quality | 1 |
every so often a film comes along that is so insanely nonsensical , so awful in so many ways that watching it leaves you giddy . half past dead is just such an accomplishment . | 0 |
never september 11 , collateral damage cannot have been just another bad movie . now it's a bad , embarrassing movie . | 0 |
the cinema has an infestation enthusiasm and we're afflicted by the film's conviction that all life centered on that place , that time and that recreational . | 1 |
this misty-eyed southern nostalgia piece , in treading the line between sappy and sanguine , winds up engulfed in tear-drenched quicksand . | 0 |
while the resident baleful games may have set new standards for thrills , suspense , and gore for video games , the movie really only succeeds in the third of these . | 0 |
albeit all the talking , by the time the bloody climax arrives we still don't feel enough of an attachment to these guys to affectionate one way or another . | 0 |
it's burns' visuals , characters and his foolish dialogue , not his plot , that carry waydowntown . | 1 |
the film's only missteps come from the script's insistence on affords deep emotional motivation for each and every one of abagnale's antics . | 1 |
murderous maids may well be the most comprehensive of these films and also pummeled closest to the truth . | 1 |
'hairdresser " is a good-hearted ensemble mockery with a variety of crazed characters and an engaging anecdote . | 1 |
these nature become tedium . | 0 |
a journey through memory , a celebratory of living , and a sobering rumination on fatality , classism , and clueless . | 1 |
a creditable venture on its own terms , lacking the broader vision that has seen certain trek films . . . cross over to a more mainstream audience . | 1 |
director uwe boll and the actors delivers scant reason to care in this crass '70s throwback . | 0 |
goyer's screenplay and direction are thankfully dumped , and he has drawn excellent performances from his threw . | 1 |
to show these characters in the act and give them no feelings of remorse -- and to cut repeatedly to the flashback of the original rape -- is exaggerated to the highest degree . | 0 |
after an uncertain start , murder batters and generally sustains a higher plateau with bullock's memorable first interrogation of gosling . | 1 |
this is the sort of low-grade dreck that usually goes straight to video --with a lousy script , awkward direction , pathetic acting , thinly dubbed dialogue and murky cinematography , finishes with visible prospering mikes . | 0 |
for the most fraction , it's a work of incendiary genius , steering obvious of knee-jerk reactions and quick alternates . | 1 |
[t]his septic doesn't even have potential as a cult film , as it's too powerful to cris insults at the filters . | 0 |
all etchings of this film should be sent to and cemeteries on pluto . | 0 |
on its own staggeringly unoriginal terms , this gender-bending comedy is routinely quite funny . | 1 |
it's the blameless star vehicle for grant , allowing him to finally move away from his usual bumbling , tongue-tied screen persona . | 1 |
[green is] the hilarious equivalent of saddam hussein , and i'm just about ready to go to the u . n . and ask permission for a preemptive strike . | 0 |
reign of fire waiting as if it was made without much thought -- and is better watched that way . | 1 |
murky , loud , inventively detailed and packed with fleet turns of plot and a shindig of visual dumbfounded . | 1 |
nobody of those rare , exhilarating cinematic buda that gets too better in hindsight , as you mull over its every nuance in your mind . | 1 |
ruh-roh ! romething's really flawed with this ricture ! | 0 |
serious and circumspect . | 1 |
standing by yourself is ghostly . . . [it's] what punk rattle music used to be , and what the video medium could use more of : spirit , perception , conviction . | 1 |
this is for the most part a vain movie , even with a great director at the helm . | 0 |
a naturally amusing film , home movie renders you crave chris smith's next movie . | 1 |
when not camouflaged by the booming bass-heavy soundtrack , the conversation presents the kind of linguistic squirming not heard since macy gray's game of chinese whispers with mr bean . | 0 |
a low-budget affair , tadpole was shot on digital video , and the images often look smeary and blurry , to the respect of distraction . then again , in a better movie , you might not have noticed . | 0 |
it's a blameless show of respect to just one of those underrated professionals who deserve but rarely receive it . | 1 |
. . . if you're just in the mood for a fun -- but horrid -- movie , you might want to catch freaks as a matinee . | 0 |
the kino doesn't add algo dulce to the myth . | 0 |
like the british patient and the unbearable lightness of being , the hours is one of those reputedly " unfilmable " novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an resplendent motion picture in its own right . | 1 |
windtalkers famed the man encyclopedia and packs an mentally wallop . | 1 |
in trying to be daring and original , it comes off as only occasionally satirical and jamais fresh . | 0 |
the director's many dodges and turns add up to little more than a screenful of gamesmanship that's low on both suspense and rewarding . | 0 |