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8,300 | 3 | it 's light on the chills and heavy on the atmospheric weirdness , and there are moments of jaw-droppingly odd behavior -- yet i found it weirdly appealing . |
8,301 | 4 | the first tunisian film i have ever seen , and it 's also probably the most good-hearted yet sensual entertainment i 'm likely to see all year . |
8,302 | 2 | yo , it 's the days of our lives meets electric boogaloo . |
8,303 | 3 | anybody who enjoys quirky , fun , popcorn movies with a touch of silliness and a little bloodshed . |
8,304 | 3 | as the dominant christine , sylvie testud is icily brilliant . |
8,305 | 1 | the makers of mothman prophecies succeed in producing that most frightening of all movies -- a mediocre horror film too bad to be good and too good to be bad . |
8,306 | 4 | ( a ) devastatingly powerful and astonishingly vivid holocaust drama . |
8,307 | 3 | dogtown & z-boys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean . |
8,308 | 2 | die another day is only intermittently entertaining but it 's hard not to be a sucker for its charms , or perhaps it 's just impossible not to feel nostalgia for movies you grew up with . |
8,309 | 3 | it works well enough , since the thrills pop up frequently , and the dispatching of the cast is as often imaginative as it is gory . |
8,310 | 4 | ( hayek ) throws herself into this dream hispanic role with a teeth-clenching gusto , she strikes a potent chemistry with molina and she gradually makes us believe she is kahlo . |
8,311 | 1 | the film 's needlessly opaque intro takes its doe-eyed crudup out of pre-9 \/ 11 new york and onto a cross-country road trip of the homeric kind . |
8,312 | 2 | there are things to like about murder by numbers -- but , in the end , the disparate elements do n't gel . |
8,313 | 1 | the biggest problem with satin rouge is lilia herself . |
8,314 | 0 | the thought of watching this film with an audience full of teenagers fixating on its body humour and reinforcement of stereotypes ( of which they 'll get plenty ) fills me with revulsion . |
8,315 | 4 | captivates and shows how a skillful filmmaker can impart a message without bludgeoning the audience over the head . |
8,316 | 1 | jaglom offers the none-too-original premise that everyone involved with moviemaking is a con artist and a liar . |
8,317 | 0 | contrived , maudlin and cliche-ridden ... if this sappy script was the best the contest received , those rejected must have been astronomically bad . |
8,318 | 1 | one suspects that craven endorses they simply because this movie makes his own look much better by comparison . |
8,319 | 1 | the film 's final hour , where nearly all the previous unseen material resides , is unconvincing soap opera that tornatore was right to cut . |
8,320 | 3 | like its bizarre heroine , it irrigates our souls . |
8,321 | 2 | to be more engaging on an emotional level , funnier , and on the whole less detached . |
8,322 | 3 | savvy director robert j. siegel and his co-writers keep the story subtle and us in suspense . |
8,323 | 1 | puts on airs of a hal hartley wannabe film -- without the vital comic ingredient of the hilarious writer-director himself . |
8,324 | 2 | ... best seen as speculative history , as much an exploration of the paranoid impulse as a creative sequel to the warren report . |
8,325 | 0 | the appeal of the vulgar , sexist , racist humour went over my head or -- considering just how low brow it is -- perhaps it snuck under my feet . |
8,326 | 0 | has the disjointed feel of a bunch of strung-together tv episodes . |
8,327 | 3 | while broomfield 's film does n't capture the effect of these tragic deaths on hip-hop culture , it succeeds as a powerful look at a failure of our justice system . |
8,328 | 2 | some movies blend together as they become distant memories . |
8,329 | 2 | what ` dumb and dumber ' would have been without the vulgarity and with an intelligent , life-affirming script . |
8,330 | 0 | completely creatively stillborn and executed in a manner that i 'm not sure could be a single iota worse ... a soulless hunk of exploitative garbage . |
8,331 | 4 | ... a vivid , thoughtful , unapologetically raw coming-of-age tale full of sex , drugs and rock 'n' roll . |
8,332 | 3 | a treat for its depiction on not giving up on dreams when you 're a struggling nobody . |
8,333 | 2 | what you end up getting is the vertical limit of surfing movies - memorable stunts with lots of downtime in between . |
8,334 | 0 | it 's fitting that a movie as artificial and soulless as the country bears owes its genesis to an animatronic display at disneyland . |
8,335 | 0 | we do n't get paid enough to sit through crap like this . |
8,336 | 1 | feels like a cold old man going through the motions . |
8,337 | 3 | both an admirable reconstruction of terrible events , and a fitting memorial to the dead of that day , and of the thousands thereafter . |
8,338 | 3 | bravado kathy ! |
8,339 | 2 | occasionally interesting but essentially unpersuasive , a footnote to a still evolving story . |
8,340 | 2 | a crude teen-oriented variation on a theme that the playwright craig lucas explored with infinitely more grace and eloquence in his prelude to a kiss . |
8,341 | 2 | it 's the movie equivalent of a sweaty old guy in a rain coat shopping for cheap porn . |
8,342 | 0 | execrable . |
8,343 | 1 | ( seagal 's ) strenuous attempt at a change in expression could very well clinch him this year 's razzie . |
8,344 | 0 | thoroughly awful . |
8,345 | 3 | the production values are of the highest and the performances attractive without being memorable . |
8,346 | 1 | starts as a tart little lemon drop of a movie and ends up as a bitter pill . |
8,347 | 2 | entertaining despite its one-joke premise with the thesis that women from venus and men from mars can indeed get together . |
8,348 | 3 | despite besson 's high-profile name being wasabi 's big selling point , there is no doubt that krawczyk deserves a huge amount of the credit for the film 's thoroughly winning tone . |
8,349 | 1 | often lingers just as long on the irrelevant as on the engaging , which gradually turns what time is it there ? |
8,350 | 4 | a sensitive , moving , brilliantly constructed work . |
8,351 | 2 | perhaps the most annoying thing about who is cletis tout ? |
8,352 | 1 | not exaggerated enough to be a parody of gross-out flicks , college flicks , or even flicks in general . |
8,353 | 1 | a high-minded snoozer . |
8,354 | 2 | the wonderful combination of the sweetness and the extraordinary technical accomplishments of the first film are maintained , but its overall impact falls a little flat with a storyline that never quite delivers the original magic . |
8,355 | 3 | bring on the sequel . |
8,356 | 3 | judging by those standards , ` scratch ' is a pretty decent little documentary . |
8,357 | 1 | a movie like the guys is why film criticism can be considered work . |
8,358 | 1 | pc stability notwithstanding , the film suffers from a simplistic narrative and a pat , fairy-tale conclusion . |
8,359 | 2 | although tender and touching , the movie would have benefited from a little more dramatic tension and some more editing . |
8,360 | 3 | an often watchable , though goofy and lurid , blast of a costume drama set in the late 15th century . |
8,361 | 1 | check your brain and your secret agent decoder ring at the door because you do n't want to think too much about what 's going on . |
8,362 | 3 | a seriocomic debut of extravagant promise by georgian-israeli director dover kosashvili . |
8,363 | 1 | as saccharine as it is disposable . |
8,364 | 3 | the film becomes an overwhelming pleasure , and you find yourself rooting for gai 's character to avoid the fate that has befallen every other carmen before her . |
8,365 | 3 | matters play out realistically if not always fairly . |
8,366 | 1 | as lively an account as seinfeld is deadpan . |
8,367 | 3 | it may not be a great piece of filmmaking , but its power comes from its soul 's - eye view of how well-meaning patronizing masked a social injustice , at least as represented by this case . |
8,368 | 0 | the only thing that distinguishes a randall wallace film from any other is the fact that there is nothing distinguishing in a randall wallace film . |
8,369 | 2 | is clever enough , though thin writing proves its undoing . |
8,370 | 1 | contains all the substance of a twinkie -- easy to swallow , but scarcely nourishing . |
8,371 | 3 | cremaster 3 is at once a tough pill to swallow and a minor miracle of self-expression . |
8,372 | 1 | ver wiel 's desperate attempt at wit is lost , leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless . |
8,373 | 3 | instead of hitting the audience over the head with a moral , schrader relies on subtle ironies and visual devices to convey point of view . |
8,374 | 1 | a sustained fest of self-congratulation between actor and director that leaves scant place for the viewer . |
8,375 | 0 | a lame romantic comedy about an unsympathetic character and someone who would not likely be so stupid as to get involved with her . |
8,376 | 3 | a much more successful translation than its most famous previous film adaptation , writer-director anthony friedman 's similarly updated 1970 british production . |
8,377 | 3 | hugh grant 's act is so consuming that sometimes it 's difficult to tell who the other actors in the movie are . |
8,378 | 1 | mendes still does n't quite know how to fill a frame . |
8,379 | 4 | but darned if it does n't also keep us riveted to our seats . |
8,380 | 0 | such an incomprehensible mess that it feels less like bad cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema . |
8,381 | 2 | the message is that even the most unlikely can link together to conquer all kinds of obstacles , whether they be of nature , of man or of one another . |
8,382 | 2 | if you do n't laugh , flee . |
8,383 | 0 | there 's 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 . |
8,384 | 0 | to call this film a lump of coal would only be to flatter it . |
8,385 | 0 | all of the filmmakers ' calculations ca n't rescue brown sugar from the curse of blandness . |
8,386 | 4 | intriguing and stylish . |
8,387 | 3 | a few nonbelievers may rethink their attitudes when they see the joy the characters take in this creed , but skeptics are n't likely to enter the theater . |
8,388 | 1 | mostly , shafer and co-writer gregory hinton lack a strong-minded viewpoint , or a sense of humor . |
8,389 | 1 | it should be interesting , it should be poignant , it turns out to be affected and boring . |
8,390 | 2 | the film has too many spots where it 's on slippery footing , but is acceptable entertainment for the entire family and one that 's especially fit for the kiddies . |
8,391 | 3 | when it 's not wallowing in hormonal melodrama , `` real women have curves '' is a sweet , honest , and enjoyable comedy-drama about a young woman who wants many things in life , but fears she 'll become her mother before she gets to fulfill her dreams . |
8,392 | 2 | that death is merely a transition is a common tenet in the world 's religions . |
8,393 | 2 | but you 'd never guess that from the performances . |
8,394 | 3 | cold , nervy and memorable . |
8,395 | 2 | feels as if the inmates have actually taken over the asylum . |
8,396 | 1 | first-timer john mckay is never able to pull it back on course . |
8,397 | 0 | you can practically hear george orwell turning over . |
8,398 | 1 | helmer hudlin tries to make a hip comedy , but his dependence on slapstick defeats the possibility of creating a more darkly edged tome . |
8,399 | 3 | passion , melodrama , sorrow , laugther , and tears cascade over the screen effortlessly ... |