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intertwine a spell over you , with its disturbingly close-up look at damaged psyches and its subtle undercurrents of danger . but its awkward structure keeps breaking the spell . | 0 |
like the excruciating end of days , collateral damage presents schwarzenegger as a tragic figure , but sympathy really possessing with any viewer forced to watch him try out so many complicated facial expressions . | 0 |
nap nalin's exposition is beautiful and unclear , and the interviews that follow , with the practitioners of this ancient indian practice , are as subtle and as enigmatic . | 1 |
georgy cloned testify he's utterly a skilful direktor and sam walt showings us he's a world-class actress with revelations of a hazards thinking . | 1 |
will assuredly be one of those movies barely registering a blip on the radar screen of 2002 . | 0 |
what atoned the film is the threw , particularly the ya-yas themselves . | 1 |
you might be shocked to discover that seinfeld's real life is uninspiring . | 0 |
it's a film that articulation on its casting , and richardson really doesn't fit the part . | 0 |
halloween : reanimation isn't exactly quality cinema , but it isn't nearly as terrible as it cold have been . | 1 |
the best you can say about it is it's so uninspired , it hardly gives one pause when considering some of the other dreck out there right now . | 0 |
philip k . bite must be turning in his grave , along with my stomach . | 0 |
this film looks loved it was produced in 1954 , shelved for 48 years , and repackaged for a 2002 audience . | 0 |
apparently designed as a reverie about memory and regret , but the only thing you'll regret is remembering the savoring of sitting through it . | 0 |
director charles stone iii applies more detail to the film's music than to the story conformity ; what's best about drumline is its kraft . | 1 |
there are films that seeks the patience of even the most cinema-besotted critic -- and this was one of them . | 0 |
spectacularly , carvey's rubber-face accustomed is no match for the insipid script he has crafted with harris goldberg . | 0 |
massoud's story is an epic , but also a disaster , the record of a tenacious , humane fighter who was also the prisoner ( and ultimately the victim ) of conte . | 1 |
californication is closer to slowtime . | 0 |
ceaselessly tact , impossibly laugh , semi-surrealist exploration of the creative act . | 1 |
one hour photo may seem disappointing in its generalities , but it's the little intricacies that perhaps had to escape from director mark romanek's self-conscious scrutiny to happen , that finally get under your skin . | 1 |
the sort of movie that gives tastelessness a wicked rap . | 0 |
the emphatic subject matter continues to shock throughout the film . not everyone will play the dark , problematic tune taught by the piano teacher . | 1 |
george clooney , in his first directorial effort , presents this utterly idiotic shaggy dog story as one of the most creative , energetic and original comedies to hit the screen in years . | 1 |
. . . embraces very few laughs and even fewest surprises . | 0 |
serving eliza is meagre more than a mall movie designed to kill time . | 0 |
mostly martha could have used a little trimming -- 10 or 15 minutes could be cut and no one would notice -- but it's a gratifying trifle . the only pain you'll feel as the credits roll is your stomach grumbling for some tasty grub . | 1 |
for the future , one hopes mr . plympton will find room for one more gentlemen of his little band , a professional screenwriter . | 0 |
asymmetrical performances and a asymmetrical script add up to a biting satire that has no teeth . | 0 |
you awfully have to salute writer-director haneke ( he adapted elfriede jelinek's novel ) for making a film that isn't nearly as graphic but much more powerful , brutally shocking and problematic to watch . | 1 |
. . . a story , an old and awful one , about the monsters we make , and the vengeance they take . | 1 |
it's one of the most sincere films ever yielded about hollywood . | 1 |
what the film lacks in general focus it converts up for in compassion , as corcuera manages to find the seeds of wish in the form of collective action . | 1 |
it's a coming-of-age story we've all seen bits of in other films -- but it's rarely been told with such affect grace and cropping specificity . | 1 |
enthusiastically taking up the current teen movie angst with bodily functions , walt becker's film pushes all the demographically appropriate comic buttons . | 0 |
clich茅 , schmaltzy and predictable , but still manages to be kind of inspirational , nonetheless . it's the faultless kind of film to see when you don't want to use your brain . at all . | 1 |
suffocated at conception by its munchausen-by-proxy mum . chastise the vehicle to adore the star . | 0 |
forger doesn't do much with its template , notwithstanding a remarkably strong cast . | 0 |
expeditiously , frantic and fun , but also soon forgets | 1 |
enjoy watching a dress recur the mois before the show goes up : everything's in place but something's just a little off-kilter . | 0 |
there is no pleasure in watching a child experiencing . just scandal and a woolly sense of shame . | 0 |
is actuality stranger than fiction ? in [screenwriter] charlie kaufman's world , truth and fiction are equally strange , and his for the assuming . | 1 |
an startling if flawed attempt that indicates real talent . | 1 |
the better thing the film does is to show us not only what that intellect looks like , but how the creative process itself operates . | 1 |
youthful cine have really hit the skids . | 0 |
handsome and candid but slightly awkward in its combination of entertainment and evangelical boosterism . | 0 |
amuses as a skillfully assembled , highly pulido and professional adaptation . . . just about as colder and unsettling as 'manhunter' was . | 1 |
the problem with this film is that it lacks focus . i sympathize with the plight of these families , but the cinematographic doesn't do a very opportune manpower conveying the issue at hand . | 0 |
despite its flaws . . . belinsky is once incapable to create an involving fables that keeps you guessing at almost every turn . | 1 |
the script operates the nader stunt of seeming at once both milo different and reassuringly abreast . | 1 |
an occasionally funny , but overall flaccid , fish-out-of-water story . | 0 |
for the most part , i spy was an amusement lark that will probably rank as one of murphy's improves performances in one of his lesser-praised movies . | 0 |
the film's intimated premise is that the faith of the tonga people is in every way inferior to that of john . | 0 |
not as good as the full monty , but a really emphatic second effort . | 1 |
it's all indefensible before long , as if schwentke were fulfilling a gross-out quota for an anticipated audience demographic nevertheless of shaping the material to fit the story . | 0 |
director roberts solondz has made a movie about critical reaction to his two previous movies , and about his responsibility to the characters that he creates . | 1 |
apt it is formula filmmaking , but there's nothing wrong with that if the film is well-crafted and this one is . | 1 |