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100 | 2 | jackson tries to keep the plates spinning as best he can , but all the bouncing back and forth ca n't help but become a bit tedious -- even with the breathtaking landscapes and villainous varmints there to distract you from the ricocheting . |
101 | 1 | ... a fascinating curiosity piece -- fascinating , that is , for about ten minutes . |
102 | 1 | over and over again . |
103 | 4 | nolan proves that he can cross swords with the best of them and helm a more traditionally plotted popcorn thriller while surrendering little of his intellectual rigor or creative composure . |
104 | 1 | this bond film goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better . |
105 | 1 | ... its solemn pretension prevents us from sharing the awe in which it holds itself . |
106 | 1 | the drama discloses almost nothing . |
107 | 1 | a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wrought hypothesis . |
108 | 4 | isabelle huppert excels as the enigmatic mika and anna mouglalis is a stunning new young talent in one of chabrol 's most intense psychological mysteries . |
109 | 2 | but ` why ? ' |
110 | 3 | like its parade of predecessors , this halloween is a gory slash-fest . |
111 | 4 | perhaps the best sports movie i 've ever seen . |
112 | 0 | this pathetic junk is barely an hour long . |
113 | 3 | ou 've got to love a disney pic with as little cleavage as this one has , and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane . |
114 | 4 | this is a gorgeous film - vivid with color , music and life . |
115 | 3 | playing a role of almost bergmanesque intensity ... bisset is both convincing and radiant . |
116 | 1 | the trappings of i spy are so familiar you might as well be watching a rerun . |
117 | 3 | it treats ana 's journey with honesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of young women in film . |
118 | 3 | leigh makes these lives count . |
119 | 2 | igby goes down is one of those movies . |
120 | 3 | ambitious , unsettling psychodrama that takes full , chilling advantage of its rough-around-the-edges , low-budget constraints . |
121 | 3 | the woodman seems to have directly influenced this girl-meets-girl love story , but even more reassuring is how its makers actually seem to understand what made allen 's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring . |
122 | 3 | i could n't recommend this film more . |
123 | 1 | an inexperienced director , mehta has much to learn . |
124 | 1 | you can taste it , but there 's no fizz . |
125 | 1 | a reworking of die hard and cliffhanger but it 's nowhere near as exciting as either . |
126 | 3 | a moving tale of love and destruction in unexpected places , unexamined lives . |
127 | 3 | it has more than a few moments that are insightful enough to be fondly remembered in the endlessly challenging maze of moviegoing . |
128 | 1 | why ? |
129 | 1 | and that is where ararat went astray . |
130 | 3 | vincent gallo is right at home in this french shocker playing his usual bad boy weirdo role . |
131 | 1 | clockstoppers is one of those crazy , mixed-up films that does n't know what it wants to be when it grows up . |
132 | 1 | sandra bullock , despite downplaying her good looks , carries a little too much ai n't - she-cute baggage into her lead role as a troubled and determined homicide cop to quite pull off the heavy stuff . |
133 | 3 | it 's mostly a pleasure to watch . |
134 | 2 | a bit too derivative to stand on its own as the psychological thriller it purports to be . |
135 | 3 | its spirit of iconoclastic abandon -- however canned -- makes for unexpectedly giddy viewing . |
136 | 1 | a kilted jackson is an unsettling sight , and indicative of his , if you will , out-of-kilter character , who rambles aimlessly through ill-conceived action pieces . |
137 | 1 | i did n't find much fascination in the swinging . |
138 | 1 | this is no `` waterboy ! '' |
139 | 4 | but the nerve-raked acting , the crackle of lines , the impressive stagings of hardware , make for some robust and scary entertainment . |
140 | 2 | a witty , trenchant , wildly unsentimental but flawed look at the ins and outs of modern moviemaking . |
141 | 3 | baby-faced renner is eerily convincing as this bland blank of a man with unimaginable demons within . |
142 | 2 | the name says it all . |
143 | 3 | the kind of primal storytelling that george lucas can only dream of . |
144 | 2 | it 's been 20 years since 48 hrs . |
145 | 4 | uplifting as only a document of the worst possibilities of mankind can be , and among the best films of the year . |
146 | 0 | the irwins ' scenes are fascinating ; the movie as a whole is cheap junk and an insult to their death-defying efforts . |
147 | 0 | it 's a frightful vanity film that , no doubt , pays off what debt miramax felt they owed to benigni . |
148 | 1 | he seems to want both , but succeeds in making neither . |
149 | 2 | funny , though . |
150 | 3 | by turns fanciful , grisly and engagingly quixotic . |
151 | 3 | the re-release of ron howard 's apollo 13 in the imax format proves absolutely that really , really , really good things can come in enormous packages . |
152 | 2 | unofficially , national lampoon 's van wilder is son of animal house . |
153 | 2 | it never is , not fully . |
154 | 2 | it 's just a little too self-satisfied . |
155 | 0 | i 've never seen ( a remake ) do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler 's new movie rapes , pillages and incinerates frank capra 's classic ... |
156 | 3 | those who want to be jolted out of their gourd should drop everything and run to ichi . |
157 | 2 | post 9\/11 the philosophical message of `` personal freedom first '' might not be as palatable as intended . |
158 | 4 | mr. deeds is , as comedy goes , very silly -- and in the best way . |
159 | 3 | this amiable picture talks tough , but it 's all bluster -- in the end it 's as sweet as greenfingers ... |
160 | 4 | my little eye is the best little `` horror '' movie i 've seen in years . |
161 | 1 | the movie is a negligible work of manipulation , an exploitation piece doing its usual worst to guilt-trip parents . |
162 | 3 | it may ... work as a jaunt down memory lane for teens and young adults who grew up on televised scooby-doo shows or reruns . |
163 | 1 | suffers from a flat script and a low budget . |
164 | 1 | the movie is well done , but slow . |
165 | 2 | the plot plummets into a comedy graveyard before janice comes racing to the rescue in the final reel . |
166 | 0 | the master of disguise is awful . |
167 | 2 | it 's an actor 's showcase that accomplishes its primary goal without the use of special effects , but rather by emphasizing the characters -- including the supporting ones . |
168 | 2 | same song , second verse , coulda been better , but it coulda been worse . |
169 | 4 | the film is one of the year 's best . |
170 | 2 | that the chuck norris `` grenade gag '' occurs about 7 times during windtalkers is a good indication of how serious-minded the film is . |
171 | 2 | frida is certainly no disaster , but neither is it the kahlo movie frida fans have been looking for . |
172 | 4 | one of the year 's most weirdly engaging and unpredictable character pieces . |
173 | 1 | the direction occasionally rises to the level of marginal competence , but for most of the film it is hard to tell who is chasing who or why . |
174 | 0 | the three leads produce adequate performances , but what 's missing from this material is any depth of feeling . |
175 | 1 | `` looking for leonard '' just seems to kinda sit in neutral , hoping for a stiff wind to blow it uphill or something . |
176 | 0 | the most surprising thing about this film is that they are actually releasing it into theaters . |
177 | 1 | ... one resurrection too many . |
178 | 3 | oh , look at that clever angle ! |
179 | 2 | warmed-over hash . |
180 | 0 | no , i hate it . |
181 | 3 | for a long time the film succeeds with its dark , delicate treatment of these characters and its unerring respect for them . |
182 | 3 | the casting of raymond j. barry as the ` assassin ' greatly enhances the quality of neil burger 's impressive fake documentary . |
183 | 0 | the film is like sitting in a downtown café , overhearing a bunch of typical late-twenty-somethings natter on about nothing , and desperately wishing you could change tables . |
184 | 3 | the filmmakers want nothing else than to show us a good time , and in their cheap , b movie way , they succeed . |
185 | 4 | a rollicking ride , with jaw-dropping action sequences , striking villains , a gorgeous color palette , astounding technology , stirring music and a boffo last hour that leads up to a strangely sinister happy ending . |
186 | 4 | an hour and a half of joyful solo performance . |
187 | 1 | contrived pastiche of caper clichés . |
188 | 4 | a triumph , a film that hews out a world and carries us effortlessly from darkness to light . |
189 | 3 | steven soderbergh 's digital video experiment is a clever and cutting , quick and dirty look at modern living and movie life . |
190 | 4 | kinnear 's performance is a career-defining revelation . |
191 | 3 | not only a reminder of how they used to make movies , but also how they sometimes still can be made . |
192 | 3 | the dragons are the real stars of reign of fire and you wo n't be disappointed . |
193 | 0 | if you 're over 25 , have an iq over 90 , and have a driver 's license , you should be able to find better entertainment . |
194 | 4 | for devotees of french cinema , safe conduct is so rich with period minutiae it 's like dying and going to celluloid heaven . |
195 | 1 | scherfig , who has had a successful career in tv , tackles more than she can handle . |
196 | 2 | really dumb but occasionally really funny . |
197 | 1 | this sade is hardly a perverse , dangerous libertine and agitator -- which would have made for better drama . |
198 | 3 | by the end of the movie , you 're definitely convinced that these women are spectacular . |
199 | 0 | ... a plotline that 's as lumpy as two-day old porridge ... the filmmakers ' paws , sad to say , were all over this `` un-bear-able '' project ! |