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have been more enjoyable had the balance shifted in favor of water-bound action over the land-based ` drama | 0 |
a rare and lightly entertaining look behind the curtain that separates comics from the people laughing in the crowd . | 1 |
given the stale plot and pornographic way the film revels in swank apartments , clothes and parties | 0 |
illustrates the problems of fledgling democracies , but also the strength and sense of freedom the iranian people already possess , with or without access to the ballot box | 1 |
cinematography and exhilarating point-of-view shots and fewer slow-motion ` grandeur ' shots and | 1 |
walked away not really know who `` they '' were , what `` they '' looked like | 0 |
barney throws away the goodwill the first half of his movie generates by orchestrating a finale that is impenetrable and dull . | 0 |
quirky , charming and | 1 |
to the fore for the gifted but no-nonsense human beings they are and for the still-inestimable contribution they have made to our shared history | 1 |
koury frighteningly and honestly exposes one teenager 's uncomfortable class resentment and , in turn , his self-inflicted retaliation . | 1 |
a low-budget affair , tadpole was shot on digital video , and the images often look smeary and blurry , to the point of distraction | 0 |
3000 | 1 |
guess why the cast and crew did n't sign a pact to burn the negative and the script and pretend the whole thing never existed | 0 |
kapur gives us episodic choppiness , undermining the story 's emotional thrust . | 0 |
catch the pitch of his poetics , savor the pleasure of his sounds and images , and | 1 |
nothing good | 0 |
the usual movie rah-rah , pleasantly and predictably delivered in low-key style by director michael apted and writer tom stoppard . | 1 |
its almost too-spectacular coastal setting distracts slightly from an eccentric and good-naturedly aimless story . | 1 |
is impressive for the sights and sounds of the wondrous beats | 1 |
bean drops the ball too many times ... hoping the nifty premise will create enough interest to make up for an unfocused screenplay | 0 |
monte cristo smartly emphasizes the well-wrought story and omits needless chase scenes and swordfights as the revenge unfolds . | 1 |
sven wollter as the stricken composer and viveka seldahl as his desperate violinist wife | 1 |
who staggered from the theater and blacked out in the lobby | 0 |
( f ) rom the performances and the cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrative , the film is blazingly alive and admirable on many levels . | 1 |
too much forced drama in this wildly uneven movie , about a young man 's battle with his inescapable past and uncertain future in a very shapable but largely unfulfilling present | 0 |
extraordinarily good | 1 |
one of those reputedly `` unfilmable '' novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own right | 1 |
throwing in everything except someone pulling the pin from a grenade with his teeth , windtalkers seems to have ransacked every old world war ii movie for overly familiar material . | 0 |
before some savvy producer saw the potential success inherent in the mixture of bullock bubble and hugh goo | 1 |
one of the best films of the year with its exquisite acting , inventive screenplay , mesmerizing music , and many inimitable scenes | 1 |
fails on its own , but makes you second-guess your affection for the original | 0 |
is bright and flashy in all the right ways | 1 |
need not apply | 0 |
is straight from the saturday morning cartoons -- a retread story , bad writing , and the same old silliness | 0 |
accurately reflects the rage and alienation that fuels the self-destructiveness of many young people | 1 |
, rather than forcing us to endure every plot contrivance that the cliché-riddled genre can offer | 0 |
sticks rigidly to the paradigm , rarely permitting its characters more than two obvious dimensions and repeatedly placing them in contrived , well-worn situations | 0 |
both garcia and jagger turn in perfectly executed and wonderfully sympathetic characters , who are alternately touching and funny . | 1 |
a more balanced or fair portrayal | 1 |
wazoo and sets | 0 |
is made fresh by an intelligent screenplay and gripping performances in this low-budget , video-shot , debut indie effort | 1 |
imperfect , love-hate relationship | 0 |
exploits ( headbanger ) stereotypes in good fun , while adding a bit of heart and unsettling subject matter . | 1 |
the poor and the dispossessed | 0 |
reputedly `` unfilmable '' novels | 0 |
hope the movie is widely seen and debated with appropriate ferocity and thoughtfulness | 1 |
this misty-eyed southern nostalgia piece , in treading the line between sappy and sanguine , winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand . | 0 |
just the labor involved in creating the layered richness of the imagery in this chiaroscuro of madness and light | 1 |
that one eventually resents having to inhale this gutter romancer 's secondhand material | 0 |
to see people working so hard at leading lives of sexy intrigue , only to be revealed by the dispassionate gantz brothers as ordinary , pasty lumpen | 1 |
there 's back-stabbing , inter-racial desire and , most importantly , singing and dancing . | 1 |
that even the most jaded cinema audiences will leave the auditorium feeling dizzy , confused , and totally disorientated | 0 |
a fairly enjoyable mixture of longest yard ... and the 1999 guy ritchie caper lock stock and two smoking barrels . | 1 |
is the drama within the drama | 1 |
gets clunky on the screen | 0 |
intoxicating documentary charting the rise of hip-hop culture in general and the art of scratching ( or turntablism ) in particular | 1 |
oedekerk mugs mercilessly , and the genuinely funny jokes are few and far between . | 0 |
, quite simply , should n't have been made | 0 |
broomfield 's style of journalism is hardly journalism at all , and even those with an avid interest in the subject will grow impatient | 0 |
strange and compelling | 1 |
hawn and sarandon form an acting bond that makes the banger sisters a fascinating character study with laughs to spare . | 1 |
this misty-eyed southern nostalgia piece , in treading the line between sappy and sanguine | 1 |
is heartfelt and hilarious in ways you ca n't fake | 1 |
good to see michael caine whipping out the dirty words and punching people in the stomach again | 1 |
amélie 's audrey tautou with another fabuleux destin -- i.e. , a banal spiritual quest | 0 |
a lyrical and celebratory vision | 1 |
the quirky and recessive charms of co-stars martin donovan and mary-louise parker | 1 |
is a film tailor-made for those who when they were in high school would choose the cliff-notes over reading a full-length classic | 0 |
that the plot makes no sense | 0 |
even on its own ludicrous terms , the sum of all fears generates little narrative momentum , and invites unflattering comparisons to other installments in the ryan series . | 0 |
is in many ways the perfect festival film : a calm , self-assured portrait of small town regret , love , duty and friendship that appeals to the storytelling instincts of a slightly more literate filmgoing audience | 1 |
to squeeze the action and our emotions into the all-too-familiar dramatic arc of the holocaust escape story | 1 |
long on the irrelevant as on the engaging , which gradually turns what time | 0 |
keeping the balance between the fantastic and the believable | 1 |
exhaustion , from watching a movie that is dark ( dark green , to be exact ) , sour , bloody and mean | 0 |
easy to take this film at face value and enjoy its slightly humorous and tender story | 1 |
, entertaining and , ultimately , more perceptive moment | 1 |
buried , drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary | 0 |
that greasy little vidgame pit in the theater lobby | 0 |
of its music or comic antics , but through the perverse pleasure of watching disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel | 0 |
visually transforms the dreary expanse of dead-end distaste the characters inhabit into a poem of art , music and metaphor . | 1 |
imagine that a more confused , less interesting and more sloppily made film could possibly come down the road in 2002 | 0 |
role , or edit , or score , or anything , really | 1 |
needs more impressionistic cinematography and exhilarating point-of-view shots and fewer slow-motion ` grandeur ' shots and quick-cut edits that often detract from the athleticism | 0 |
it celebrates the group 's playful spark of nonconformity , glancing vividly back at what hibiscus grandly called his ` angels of light . ' | 1 |
length , awash in self-consciously flashy camera effects , droning house music and flat , flat dialogue | 0 |
is there a group of more self-absorbed women than the mother and daughters featured in this film ? | 0 |
bring on the sequel | 1 |
into forced fuzziness | 1 |
director shekhar kapur and screenwriters michael schiffer and hossein amini have tried hard to modernize and reconceptualize things , | 1 |
bewilderingly brilliant and | 1 |
just as the lousy tarantino imitations have subsided , here comes the first lousy guy ritchie imitation . | 0 |
done excellent work here | 1 |
while the plot follows a predictable connect-the-dots course ... director john schultz colors the picture in some evocative shades . | 1 |
family togetherness takes a back seat to inter-family rivalry and workplace ambition ... whole subplots have no explanation or even plot relevance | 0 |
, salvation and good intentions | 1 |
( f ) rom the performances and the cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrative | 1 |
that ultimately defeated the film ... it was the unfulfilling , incongruous , `` wait a second | 0 |
those reputedly `` unfilmable '' novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own right | 1 |
that the e-graveyard | 0 |
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