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500 | 3 | the work of a filmmaker who has secrets buried at the heart of his story and knows how to take time revealing them . |
501 | 2 | exactly what you 'd expect from a guy named kaos . |
502 | 1 | for this sort of thing to work , we need agile performers , but the proficient , dull sorvino has no light touch , and rodan is out of his league . |
503 | 2 | i had more fun with ben stiller 's zoolander , which i thought was rather clever . |
504 | 3 | juliette binoche 's sand is vivacious , but it 's hard to sense that powerhouse of 19th-century prose behind her childlike smile . |
505 | 0 | most of the storylines feel like time fillers between surf shots . |
506 | 2 | but not a whit more . |
507 | 4 | a powerful performance from mel gibson and a brutal 90-minute battle sequence that does everything but issue you a dog-tag and an m-16 . |
508 | 4 | woody allen has really found his groove these days . |
509 | 1 | the screenwriters dig themselves in deeper every time they toss logic and science into what is essentially a `` dungeons and dragons '' fantasy with modern military weaponry ... |
510 | 4 | delirious fun . |
511 | 0 | what might have been acceptable on the printed page of iles ' book does not translate well to the screen . |
512 | 1 | ice cube is n't quite out of ripe screwball ideas , but friday after next spreads them pretty thin . |
513 | 1 | director david fincher and writer david koepp ca n't sustain it . |
514 | 2 | displays the potential for a better movie than what bailly manages to deliver |
515 | 2 | sometimes entertaining , sometimes indulgent -- but never less than pure wankery . |
516 | 2 | ( the digital effects ) reminded me of terry gilliam 's rudimentary old monty python cartoons , in which he would cut out figures from drawings and photographs and paste them together . |
517 | 0 | mckay shows crushingly little curiosity about , or is ill-equipped to examine , the interior lives of the characters in his film , much less incorporate them into his narrative . |
518 | 3 | what lifts the film high above run-of-the-filth gangster flicks is its refusal to recognise any of the signposts , as if discovering a way through to the bitter end without a map . |
519 | 1 | it gets the details of its time frame right but it completely misses its emotions . |
520 | 3 | entirely appropriately , the tale unfolds like a lazy summer afternoon and concludes with the crisp clarity of a fall dawn . |
521 | 2 | does anyone much think the central story of brendan behan is that he was a bisexual sweetheart before he took to drink ? |
522 | 0 | what we have is a character faced with the possibility that her life is meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance , in a movie that is definitely meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance . |
523 | 4 | with a cast of a-list brit actors , it is worth searching out . |
524 | 4 | it 's refreshing that someone understands the need for the bad boy ; diesel , with his brawny frame and cool , composed delivery , fits the bill perfectly . |
525 | 0 | for all of its insights into the dream world of teen life , and its electronic expression through cyber culture , the film gives no quarter to anyone seeking to pull a cohesive story out of its 2 1\/2 - hour running time . |
526 | 2 | most of the characters come off as pantomimesque sterotypes . |
527 | 2 | as self-aware movies go , who is cletis tout ? |
528 | 1 | with flashbulb editing as cover for the absence of narrative continuity , undisputed is nearly incoherent , an excuse to get to the closing bout ... by which time it 's impossible to care who wins . |
529 | 3 | clooney directs this film always keeping the balance between the fantastic and the believable ... |
530 | 3 | happy times maintains an appealing veneer without becoming too cute about it . |
531 | 1 | tv skit-com material fervently deposited on the big screen . |
532 | 4 | a compelling film . |
533 | 3 | the film 's unhurried pace is actually one of its strengths . |
534 | 2 | the same should go for movie theaters . |
535 | 3 | it certainly wo n't win any awards in the plot department but it sets out with no pretensions and delivers big time . |
536 | 3 | most of the things that made the original men in black such a pleasure are still there . |
537 | 0 | cold , sterile and lacking any color or warmth . |
538 | 0 | a ` girls gone wild ' video for the boho art-house crowd , the burning sensation is n't a definitive counter-cultural document -- its makers are n't removed and inquisitive enough for that . |
539 | 2 | the entire movie has a truncated feeling , but what 's available is lovely and lovable . |
540 | 1 | ... the movie feels stitched together from stock situations and characters from other movies . |
541 | 4 | with an obvious rapport with her actors and a striking style behind the camera , hélène angel is definitely a director to watch . |
542 | 2 | aptly named , this shimmering , beautifully costumed and filmed production does n't work for me . |
543 | 3 | a deft , delightful mix of sulky teen drama and overcoming-obstacles sports-movie triumph . |
544 | 2 | a few energetic stunt sequences briefly enliven the film , but the wheezing terrorist subplot has n't the stamina for the 100-minute running time , and the protagonists ' bohemian boorishness mars the spirit of good clean fun . |
545 | 2 | an uplifting drama ... what antwone fisher is n't , however , is original . |
546 | 0 | men in black ii achieves ultimate insignificance -- it 's the sci-fi comedy spectacle as whiffle-ball epic . |
547 | 0 | there 's nothing to gain from watching they . |
548 | 1 | debut effort by `` project greenlight '' winner is sappy and amateurish . |
549 | 3 | your 20th outing shows off a lot of stamina and vitality , and get this , madonna 's cameo does n't suck ! |
550 | 1 | an absurdist spider web . |
551 | 3 | a journey that is as difficult for the audience to take as it is for the protagonist -- yet it 's potentially just as rewarding . |
552 | 1 | rather less than the sum of its underventilated père-fils confrontations . |
553 | 3 | an entertaining documentary that freshly considers arguments the bard 's immortal plays were written by somebody else . |
554 | 2 | `` me without you '' is a probing examination of a female friendship set against a few dynamic decades . |
555 | 0 | stay away . |
556 | 1 | contrasting the original ringu with the current americanized adaptation is akin to comparing the evil dead with evil dead ii |
557 | 1 | skip this dreck , rent animal house and go back to the source . |
558 | 3 | beautifully filmed and well acted ... but admittedly problematic in its narrative specifics . |
559 | 3 | if you 're burnt out on it 's a wonderful life marathons and bored with a christmas carol , it might just be the movie you 're looking for . |
560 | 3 | the film 's highlight is definitely its screenplay , both for the rhapsodic dialogue that jumps off the page , and for the memorable character creations . |
561 | 1 | the movie , like bartleby , is something of a stiff -- an extra-dry office comedy that seems twice as long as its 83 minutes . |
562 | 2 | the good thing -- the only good thing -- about extreme ops is that it 's so inane that it gave me plenty of time to ponder my thanksgiving to-do list . |
563 | 3 | it 's sort of a 21st century morality play with a latino hip hop beat . |
564 | 0 | should n't have been allowed to use the word `` new '' in its title , because there 's not an original character , siuation or joke in the entire movie . |
565 | 1 | decent but dull . |
566 | 0 | get out your pooper-scoopers . |
567 | 1 | humor in i spy is so anemic . |
568 | 4 | at least it 's a fairly impressive debut from the director , charles stone iii . |
569 | 3 | try as you might to resist , if you 've got a place in your heart for smokey robinson , this movie will worm its way there . |
570 | 3 | if the film has a problem , its shortness disappoints : you want the story to go on and on . |
571 | 1 | there 's not a fresh idea at the core of this tale . |
572 | 3 | this film is so different from the apple and so striking that it can only encourage us to see samira makhmalbaf as a very distinctive sensibility , working to develop her own film language with conspicuous success . |
573 | 1 | this is a movie where the most notable observation is how long you 've been sitting still . |
574 | 1 | technically and artistically inept . |
575 | 0 | ... overly melodramatic ... |
576 | 2 | you 'll get the enjoyable basic minimum . |
577 | 1 | trouble every day is a success in some sense , but it 's hard to like a film so cold and dead . |
578 | 1 | ... stumbles over every cheap trick in the book trying to make the outrage come even easier . |
579 | 0 | in all the annals of the movies , few films have been this odd , inexplicable and unpleasant . |
580 | 4 | allen 's funniest and most likeable movie in years . |
581 | 0 | highly uneven and inconsistent ... margarita happy hour kinda resembles the el cheapo margaritas served within . |
582 | 2 | weiss and speck never make a convincing case for the relevance of these two 20th-century footnotes . |
583 | 0 | the effort is sincere and the results are honest , but the film is so bleak that it 's hardly watchable . |
584 | 2 | earnest and tentative even when it aims to shock . |
585 | 2 | blithely anachronistic and slyly achronological . |
586 | 1 | the scriptwriters are no less a menace to society than the film 's characters . |
587 | 3 | a big-budget\/all-star movie as unblinkingly pure as the hours is a distinct rarity , and an event . |
588 | 4 | an enormously entertaining movie , like nothing we 've ever seen before , and yet completely familiar . |
589 | 1 | even as the hero of the story rediscovers his passion in life , the mood remains oddly detached . |
590 | 2 | as a movie , it never seems fresh and vital . |
591 | 3 | deepa mehta provides an accessible introduction as well as some intelligent observations on the success of bollywood in the western world . |
592 | 0 | a cheap scam put together by some cynical creeps at revolution studios and imagine entertainment to make the suckers out there surrender $ 9 and 93 minutes of unrecoverable life . |
593 | 1 | not once does it come close to being exciting . |
594 | 1 | it 's a hellish , numbing experience to watch , and it does n't offer any insights that have n't been thoroughly debated in the media already , back in the dahmer heyday of the mid - '90s . |
595 | 1 | the film is hampered by its predictable plot and paper-thin supporting characters . |
596 | 3 | ... standard guns versus martial arts cliche with little new added . |
597 | 1 | a noble failure . |
598 | 3 | much of what we see is horrible but it 's also undeniably exceedingly clever . |
599 | 0 | there 's not a comedic moment in this romantic comedy . |