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8,100 | 1 | but it would be better to wait for the video . |
8,101 | 1 | dreary tale of middle-class angst |
8,102 | 3 | though the aboriginal aspect lends the ending an extraordinary poignancy , and the story itself could be played out in any working class community in the nation . |
8,103 | 4 | the byplay and bickering between the now spy-savvy siblings , carmen ( vega ) and juni ( sabara ) cortez , anchor the film in a very real and amusing give-and-take . |
8,104 | 4 | it 's sweet , funny , charming , and completely delightful . |
8,105 | 3 | seen in that light , moonlight mile should strike a nerve in many . |
8,106 | 1 | to the filmmakers , ivan is a prince of a fellow , but he comes across as shallow and glib though not mean-spirited , and there 's no indication that he 's been responsible for putting together any movies of particular value or merit . |
8,107 | 1 | the movie 's something-borrowed construction feels less the product of loving , well integrated homage and more like a mere excuse for the wan , thinly sketched story . |
8,108 | 1 | none of birthday girl 's calculated events take us by surprise ... |
8,109 | 0 | there are many definitions of ` time waster ' but this movie must surely be one of them . |
8,110 | 4 | i can easily imagine benigni 's pinocchio becoming a christmas perennial . |
8,111 | 1 | this is rote drivel aimed at mom and dad 's wallet . |
8,112 | 3 | k 19 stays afloat as decent drama\/action flick |
8,113 | 0 | what more can be expected from a college comedy that 's target audience has n't graduated from junior high school ? |
8,114 | 1 | it 's quite diverting nonsense . |
8,115 | 0 | aggravating and tedious . |
8,116 | 1 | i 'm sorry to say that this should seal the deal - arnold is not , nor will he be , back . |
8,117 | 3 | a bittersweet drama about the limbo of grief and how truth-telling can open the door to liberation . |
8,118 | 2 | formula 51 has dulled your senses faster and deeper than any recreational drug on the market . |
8,119 | 3 | more precious than perspicacious |
8,120 | 2 | kurys never shows why , of all the period 's volatile romantic lives , sand and musset are worth particular attention . |
8,121 | 3 | rarely does such high-profile talent serve such literate material . |
8,122 | 1 | a moving picture that does not move . |
8,123 | 0 | this ludicrous film is predictable at every turn . |
8,124 | 0 | just another combination of bad animation and mindless violence ... lacking the slightest bit of wit or charm . |
8,125 | 4 | ( fiji diver rusi vulakoro and the married couple howard and michelle hall ) show us the world they love and make us love it , too . |
8,126 | 2 | were it not for a sentimental resolution that explains way more about cal than does the movie or the character any good , freundlich 's world traveler might have been one of the more daring and surprising american movies of the year . |
8,127 | 4 | a fanciful drama about napoleon 's last years and his surprising discovery of love and humility . |
8,128 | 1 | the superior plotline is n't quite enough to drag along the dead ( water ) weight of the other . |
8,129 | 3 | ... enthusiastically invokes the percussion rhythm , the brass soul and the sense of fierce competition that helps make great marching bands half the fun of college football games . |
8,130 | 4 | spy kids 2 also happens to be that rarity among sequels : it actually improves upon the original hit movie . |
8,131 | 4 | speaks eloquently about the symbiotic relationship between art and life . |
8,132 | 2 | benigni 's pinocchio is extremely straight and mind-numbingly stilted , its episodic pacing keeping the film from developing any storytelling flow . |
8,133 | 4 | audiard successfully maintains suspense on different levels throughout a film that is both gripping and compelling . |
8,134 | 4 | an unsettling , memorable cinematic experience that does its predecessors proud . |
8,135 | 3 | its almost too-spectacular coastal setting distracts slightly from an eccentric and good-naturedly aimless story . |
8,136 | 4 | a compassionate , moving portrait of an american ( and an america ) always reaching for something just outside his grasp . |
8,137 | 3 | ( stephen ) earnhart 's film is more about the optimism of a group of people who are struggling to give themselves a better lot in life than the ones they currently have . |
8,138 | 3 | adaptation is intricately constructed and in a strange way nails all of orlean 's themes without being a true adaptation of her book . |
8,139 | 1 | if you want a movie time trip , the 1960 version is a far smoother ride . |
8,140 | 3 | an older cad instructs a younger lad in zen and the art of getting laid in this prickly indie comedy of manners and misanthropy . |
8,141 | 2 | director-chef gabriele muccino keeps it fast -- zippy , comin ' at ya -- as if fearing that his film is molto superficiale . |
8,142 | 3 | with amazing finesse , the film shadows heidi 's trip back to vietnam and the city where her mother , mai thi kim , still lives . |
8,143 | 1 | an occasionally interesting but mostly repetitive look at a slice of counterculture that might be best forgotten . |
8,144 | 2 | does what should seem impossible : it makes serial killer jeffrey dahmer boring . |
8,145 | 0 | it 's an 88-minute highlight reel that 's 86 minutes too long . |
8,146 | 2 | a respectable but uninspired thriller that 's intelligent and considered in its details , but ultimately weak in its impact . |
8,147 | 3 | ( jeff 's ) gorgeous , fluid compositions , underlined by neil finn and edmund mcwilliams 's melancholy music , are charged with metaphor , but rarely easy , obvious or self-indulgent . |
8,148 | 2 | one of the pleasures in walter 's documentary ... is the parade of veteran painters , confounded dealers , and miscellaneous bohos who expound upon the subject 's mysterious personality without ever explaining him . |
8,149 | 4 | it 's a smart , solid , kinetically-charged spy flick worthy of a couple hours of summertime and a bucket of popcorn . |
8,150 | 2 | a violent initiation rite for the audience , as much as it is for angelique , the ( opening ) dance guarantees karmen 's enthronement among the cinema 's memorable women . |
8,151 | 3 | the film is predictable in the reassuring manner of a beautifully sung holiday carol . |
8,152 | 3 | the heat of the moment prevails . |
8,153 | 4 | a beautifully tooled action thriller about love and terrorism in korea . |
8,154 | 1 | return to never land is much more p.c. than the original version ( no more racist portraits of indians , for instance ) , but the excitement is missing . |
8,155 | 2 | the sight of the name bruce willis brings to mind images of a violent battlefield action picture , but the film has a lot more on its mind -- maybe too much . |
8,156 | 0 | the only thing `` swept away '' is the one hour and thirty-three minutes spent watching this waste of time . |
8,157 | 3 | the banter between calvin and his fellow barbers feels like a streetwise mclaughlin group ... and never fails to entertain . |
8,158 | 1 | while the importance of being earnest offers opportunities for occasional smiles and chuckles , it does n't give us a reason to be in the theater beyond wilde 's wit and the actors ' performances . |
8,159 | 2 | indeed , none of these words really gets at the very special type of badness that is deuces wild . |
8,160 | 0 | contrived , awkward and filled with unintended laughs , the film shows signs that someone other than the director got into the editing room and tried to improve things by making the movie go faster . |
8,161 | 2 | amid the cliché and foreshadowing , cage manages a degree of casual realism ... that is routinely dynamited by blethyn . |
8,162 | 3 | broomfield reminds us that beneath the hype , the celebrity , the high life , the conspiracies and the mystery there were once a couple of bright young men -- promising , talented , charismatic and tragically doomed . |
8,163 | 3 | offers a persuasive look at a defeated but defiant nation in flux . |
8,164 | 2 | jolting into charleston rhythms , the story has the sizzle of old news that has finally found the right vent ( accurate ? |
8,165 | 3 | muccino seems to be exploring the idea of why human beings long for what they do n't have , and how this gets us in trouble . |
8,166 | 1 | this picture is mostly a lump of run-of-the-mill profanity sprinkled with a few remarks so geared toward engendering audience sympathy that you might think he was running for office -- or trying to win over a probation officer . |
8,167 | 4 | my wife is an actress has its moments in looking at the comic effects of jealousy . |
8,168 | 4 | a riveting documentary . |
8,169 | 3 | while i ca n't say it 's on par with the first one , stuart little 2 is a light , fun cheese puff of a movie . |
8,170 | 0 | so boring that even its target audience talked all the way through it . |
8,171 | 3 | sad to say -- it accurately reflects the rage and alienation that fuels the self-destructiveness of many young people . |
8,172 | 3 | it 's neither as sappy as big daddy nor as anarchic as happy gilmore or the waterboy , but it has its moments . |
8,173 | 4 | great character interaction . |
8,174 | 1 | louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode , and brother hoffman 's script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just does n't make sense . |
8,175 | 1 | even bigger and more ambitious than the first installment , spy kids 2 looks as if it were made by a highly gifted 12-year-old instead of a grown man . |
8,176 | 3 | a meatier deeper beginning and\/or ending would have easily tipped this film into the `` a '' range , as is , it 's a very very strong `` b + . '' |
8,177 | 2 | twist open the ouzo ! |
8,178 | 2 | the biggest problem with this movie is that it 's not nearly long enough . |
8,179 | 3 | funny in a sick , twisted sort of way . |
8,180 | 3 | trapped wo n't score points for political correctness , but it may cause parents a few sleepless hours -- a sign of its effectiveness . |
8,181 | 3 | nicks refuses to let slackers be seen as just another teen movie , which means he can be forgiven for frequently pandering to fans of the gross-out comedy . |
8,182 | 3 | but though he only scratches the surface , at least he provides a strong itch to explore more . |
8,183 | 2 | it 's dark and tragic , and lets the business of the greedy talent agents get in the way of saying something meaningful about facing death |
8,184 | 1 | there are few things more frustrating to a film buff than seeing an otherwise good movie marred beyond redemption by a disastrous ending . |
8,185 | 1 | the film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises . |
8,186 | 2 | the rock has a great presence but one battle after another is not the same as one battle followed by killer cgi effects . |
8,187 | 4 | birthday girl walks a tricky tightrope between being wickedly funny and just plain wicked . |
8,188 | 1 | potty-mouthed enough for pg-13 , yet not as hilariously raunchy as south park , this strangely schizo cartoon seems suited neither to kids or adults . |
8,189 | 0 | does n't add up to much . |
8,190 | 1 | while it is welcome to see a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion , lan yu never catches dramatic fire . |
8,191 | 0 | the movie is silly beyond comprehension , and even if it were n't silly , it would still be beyond comprehension . |
8,192 | 2 | ... is there a deeper , more direct connection between these women , one that spans time and reveals meaning ? |
8,193 | 3 | despite its flaws , crazy as hell marks an encouraging new direction for la salle . |
8,194 | 1 | this film is too busy hitting all of its assigned marks to take on any life of its own . |
8,195 | 1 | one of the most plain , unimaginative romantic comedies i 've ever seen . |
8,196 | 4 | it 's tough to watch , but it 's a fantastic movie . |
8,197 | 4 | the movie is well crafted , and well executed . |
8,198 | 1 | it all comes down to whether you can tolerate leon barlow . |
8,199 | 0 | 90 punitive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay , screeching-metal smashups , and flaccid odd-couple sniping . |