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starts off as a satisfying kids flck becomes increasingly implausible as it races through contrived plot points | 0 |
the leaping story line , shaped by director peter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting impressions , | 1 |
, manipulative and as bland as wonder bread dipped in milk , but it also does the absolute last thing we need hollywood doing to us : it preaches . | 0 |
fontaine masterfully creates a portrait of two strong men in conflict , inextricably entwined through family history , each seeing himself in the other , neither liking what he sees . | 1 |
... unspeakably , unbearably dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted . | 0 |
a terrific performance in this fascinating portrait of a modern lothario | 1 |
the film is also imbued with strong themes of familial ties and spirituality that are powerful and moving without stooping to base melodrama | 1 |
as well-written as sexy beast , not as gloriously flippant as lock , stock and two smoking barrels , | 1 |
piercingly affecting ... while clearly a manipulative film , emerges as powerful rather than cloying | 1 |
that it feels less like bad cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema | 0 |
a piece of mildly entertaining , inoffensive fluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the cracks of that ever-growing category : | 0 |
director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries , but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film school undergrad , and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first place | 0 |
as a satisfying kids flck becomes increasingly implausible as it races through contrived plot points | 0 |
creating an intriguing species of artifice | 1 |
surprising highs , sorrowful lows and hidden impulsive niches ... gorgeous , passionate , and at times uncommonly moving | 1 |
does too much meandering , norton has to recite bland police procedural details , fiennes wanders around in an attempt to seem weird and distanced , hopkins looks like a drag queen | 0 |
wall-to-wall good time | 1 |
cliched and contrived that it makes your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects | 0 |
this deeply moving french drama develops a startling story that works both as a detailed personal portrait and as a rather frightening examination of modern times . | 1 |
the weight of water comes off as a two-way time-switching myopic mystery that stalls in its lackluster gear of emotional blandness . | 0 |
is not really a film as much as it is a loose collection of not-so-funny gags , scattered moments of lazy humor | 0 |
the magnificent swooping aerial shots are breathtaking | 1 |
a piece of mildly entertaining , inoffensive fluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the cracks of that ever-growing category : unembarrassing but unmemorable | 1 |
too predictable and far too cliched | 0 |
tell you how tedious , how resolutely unamusing , how thoroughly unrewarding all of this is , and what a reckless squandering of four fine acting talents | 0 |
an engrossing portrait of a man whose engaging manner and flamboyant style made him a truly larger-than-life character | 1 |
as well-written as sexy beast , not as gloriously flippant as lock , stock and two smoking barrels , but stylish and moody and exceptionally well-acted | 1 |
it 's also not smart or barbed enough for older viewers -- not everyone thinks poo-poo jokes are ` edgy | 0 |
observation in the work of the director , frank novak , that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism | 1 |
as deep as a petri dish | 0 |
next week , why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni ? | 0 |
good fun | 1 |
taken | 0 |
scott delivers a terrific performance in this fascinating portrait of a modern lothario . | 1 |
a satisfying kids flck becomes increasingly implausible as it races through contrived plot points | 0 |
this enthralling documentary ... is at once playful and haunting , an in-depth portrait of an iconoclastic artist who was fundamentally unknowable even to his closest friends . | 1 |
what saves it ... and makes it one of the better video-game-based flicks , is that the film acknowledges upfront that the plot makes no sense , such that the lack of linearity is the point of emotional and moral departure for protagonist alice . | 1 |
manipulative and as bland as wonder bread dipped in milk , but it also does the absolute last thing we need hollywood doing to us : it preaches . | 0 |
gets too cloying | 0 |
to tell you how tedious , how resolutely unamusing , how thoroughly unrewarding all of this is , and what a reckless squandering of four fine acting talents | 0 |
sc2 is an autopilot hollywood concoction lacking in imagination and authentic christmas spirit , yet it 's geared toward an audience full of masters of both | 0 |
captures , in luminous interviews and amazingly evocative film from three decades ago | 1 |
the nicest thing that can be said about stealing harvard ( which might have been called freddy gets molested by a dog ) is that it 's not as obnoxious as tom green 's freddie got fingered . | 0 |
with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , the spy kids franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kids . | 1 |
starts off as a satisfying kids flck becomes increasingly implausible as it races through contrived plot points . | 0 |
shaped by director peter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting impressions | 1 |
and lurches between not-very-funny comedy , unconvincing dramatics | 0 |
as a two-way time-switching myopic mystery that stalls in its lackluster gear of emotional blandness | 0 |
a soul-stirring documentary about the israeli/palestinian conflict as revealed through the eyes of some children who remain curious about each other against all odds . | 1 |
are vividly and painfully brought to slovenly life in this self-deprecating , biting and witty feature written by charlie kaufman and his twin brother , donald , and directed by spike jonze | 1 |
those terrific documentaries | 1 |
too bad kramer could n't make a guest appearance to liven things up . | 0 |
complete lack | 0 |
's enough to watch huppert scheming , with her small , intelligent eyes as steady as any noir villain , and to enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tension that chabrol spins | 1 |
sensitive ensemble performances and good period reconstruction add up to a moving tragedy with some buoyant human moments . | 1 |
in retelling a historically significant , and personal , episode detailing how one international city welcomed tens of thousands of german jewish refugees while the world 's democracie | 1 |
instead of contriving a climactic hero 's death for the beloved-major - character-who-shall - remain-nameless , why not invite some genuine spontaneity into the film by having the evil aliens ' laser guns actually hit something for once ? | 0 |
well-written as sexy beast | 1 |
's dull , spiritless , silly and monotonous : an ultra-loud blast of pointless mayhem , going nowhere fast | 0 |
figures prominently in this movie , and helps keep the proceedings as funny for grown-ups as for rugrats | 1 |
as well-written as sexy beast , not as gloriously flippant as lock , stock and two smoking barrels , but stylish and moody and | 1 |
piles layer upon layer of action man cliché atop wooden dialogue and a shifting tone that falls far short of the peculiarly moral amorality of ( woo 's ) best work | 0 |
this is popcorn movie fun with equal doses of action , cheese , ham and cheek ( as well as a serious debt to the road warrior ) | 1 |
it could have been a hoot in a bad-movie way if the laborious pacing and endless exposition had been tightened | 0 |
has ever suspected hollywood of being overrun by corrupt and hedonistic weasels | 0 |
, not as gloriously flippant as lock , stock and two smoking barrels , | 0 |
depressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived | 0 |
touching | 1 |
imagine kevin smith , the blasphemous bad boy of suburban jersey , if he were stripped of most of his budget and all of his sense of humor | 0 |
by kevin bray , whose crisp framing , edgy camera work , and wholesale ineptitude with acting , tone and pace very obviously mark him as a video helmer making his feature debut | 0 |
moving tragedy | 1 |
a sharp and quick documentary that is funny and pithy , while illuminating an era of theatrical comedy that , while past , | 1 |
marvelously entertaining and deliriously | 1 |
would benigni 's italian pinocchio have been any easier to sit through than this hastily dubbed disaster ? | 0 |
as well-written as sexy beast , not as gloriously flippant as lock , stock and two smoking barrels , but | 1 |
charitable | 1 |
too many tried-and-true shenanigans | 0 |
but it was n't horrible either | 1 |
human nature , in short , is n't nearly as funny as it thinks it is ; neither is it as smart | 0 |
add up to a moving tragedy with some buoyant human moments | 1 |
holm does his sly , intricate magic , and iben hjelje is entirely appealing as pumpkin | 1 |
wallace , who wrote gibson 's braveheart as well as the recent pearl harbor , has such an irrepressible passion for sappy situations and dialogue | 0 |
a man whose engaging manner and flamboyant style made him a truly larger-than-life character | 1 |
is meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance , in a movie that is definitely meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance | 0 |
good ear | 1 |
the pairing does sound promising in theory ... but their lack of chemistry makes eddie murphy and robert deniro in showtime look like old , familiar vaudeville partners . | 0 |
, the weight of water comes off as a two-way time-switching myopic mystery that stalls in its lackluster gear of emotional blandness . | 0 |
zzzzzzzzz | 0 |
with an adequate reason why we should pay money for what we can get on television for free | 0 |
, norton has to recite bland police procedural details , fiennes wanders around in an attempt to seem weird and distanced , | 0 |
this is a perceptive study of two families in crisis -- and of two girls whose friendship is severely tested by bad luck and their own immaturity . | 1 |
assembles a fascinating profile of a deeply humanistic artist who , in spite of all that he 's witnessed , remains surprisingly idealistic | 1 |
feels as immediate as the latest news footage from gaza and , because of its heightened , well-shaped dramas , twice as powerful | 1 |
a not-so-divine secrets | 0 |
spreads itself too thin , leaving these actors , as well as the members of the commune , short of profound characterizations | 0 |
showtime 's uninspired send-up of tv cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks | 0 |
an eerily suspenseful , deeply absorbing piece that works as a treatise on spirituality as well as a solid sci-fi thriller | 1 |
, and intermittently hilarious | 1 |
a temperamental child begging for attention , giving audiences no reason to truly care for its decrepit freaks beyond the promise of a reprieve from their incessant whining | 0 |
it feels less like bad cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema | 0 |
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