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0 | 0 | gangs , despite the gravity of its subject matter , is often as fun to watch as a good spaghetti western . |
1 | 0 | in other words , it's just another sports drama/character study . yet this one makes up for in heart what it lacks in outright newness . plus , like i already mentioned . . . it's robert duvall ! c'mon ! |
2 | 0 | woo has as much right to make a huge action sequence as any director , but how long will filmmakers copy the " saving private ryan " battle scenes before realizing steven spielberg got it right the first time ? |
3 | 0 | the script isn't very good ; not even someone as gifted as hoffman ( the actor ) can make it work . |
4 | 0 | in scope , ambition and accomplishment , children of the century . . . takes kurys' career to a whole new level . |
5 | 0 | . . . too slow , too boring , and occasionally annoying . |
6 | 0 | beautifully acted , smart and funny . it steers clear of being a maudlin soap opera normally found on lifetime . |
7 | 0 | in comparison to his earlier films it seems a disappointingly thin slice of lower-class london life ; despite the title . . . amounts to surprisingly little . |
8 | 0 | a bit of whimsically warped history elevated by the central performance of ian holm . |
9 | 0 | it is so refreshing to see robin williams turn 180 degrees from the string of insultingly innocuous and sappy fiascoes he's been making for the last several years . |
10 | 0 | a terrific insider look at the star-making machinery of tinseltown . |
11 | 0 | it's a celebration of self-confidence and a slap in the face of a society that cherises impossibly unnatural physical perfection . |
12 | 0 | the sweetest thing , a romantic comedy with outrageous tendencies , may be a mess in a lot of ways . but it does have one saving grace . a lot of its gags and observations reflect a woman's point-of-view . |
13 | 0 | instead of a hyperbolic beat-charged urban western , it's an unpretentious , sociologically pointed slice of life . |
14 | 0 | an absurdist comedy about alienation , separation and loss . |
15 | 0 | a stunning and overwhelmingly cogent case for kissinger as a calculating war criminal . |
16 | 0 | the only camouflage carvey should now be considering is a paper bag to wear over his head when he goes out into public , to avoid being recognized as the man who bilked unsuspecting moviegoers . |
17 | 0 | a film that begins with the everyday lives of naval personnel in san diego and ends with scenes so true and heartbreaking that tears welled up in my eyes both times i saw the film . |
18 | 0 | malone does have a gift for generating nightmarish images that will be hard to burn out of your brain . but the movie's narrative hook is way too muddled to be an effectively chilling guilty pleasure . |
19 | 0 | one regards reign of fire with awe . what a vast enterprise has been marshaled in the service of such a minute idea . |
20 | 0 | a profoundly moving document . . . the filmmakers' refusal to downplay the situation's intractability makes the glimmer of hope the film offers that much more powerful . |
21 | 0 | the pace and the visuals are so hyped up that a curious sense of menace informs everything . |
22 | 0 | a sparkling cosmopolitan comedy that plays fast and loose with sacred cows of family values . |
23 | 0 | there are a few laughs and clever sight gags scattered about , but not enough to make this anything more than another big-budget bust . |
24 | 0 | an energetic and engaging film that never pretends to be something it isn't . |
25 | 0 | [city] reminds us how realistically nuanced a robert de niro performance can be when he is not more lucratively engaged in the shameless self-caricature of 'analyze this' ( 1999 ) and 'analyze that , ' promised ( or threatened ) for later this year . |
26 | 0 | not quite as miraculous as its dreamworks makers would have you believe , but it more than adequately fills the eyes and stirs the emotions . |
27 | 0 | if the film fails to fulfill its own ambitious goals , it nonetheless sustains interest during the long build-up of expository material . |
28 | 0 | if high crimes were any more generic it would have a universal product code instead of a title . |
29 | 0 | it is a testament of quiet endurance , of common concern , of reconciled survival . |
30 | 0 | it's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan . make chan's action sequences boring . |
31 | 0 | it's a feel-good movie about which you can actually feel good . |
32 | 0 | a tender and touching drama , based on the true story of a troubled african-american's quest to come to terms with his origins , reveals the yearning we all have in our hearts for acceptance within the family circle . |
33 | 0 | i admired it , particularly that unexpected downer of an ending . |
34 | 0 | definitely not the knee-slapper that i was told it would be , but enough hahas for me to grade as passable . |
35 | 0 | oliveira seems to pursue silent film representation with every mournful composition . |
36 | 0 | for the most part , director anne-sophie birot's first feature is a sensitive , extraordinarily well-acted drama . |
37 | 0 | the longer the movie goes , the worse it gets , but it's actually pretty good in the first few minutes . |
38 | 0 | it's fun , wispy , wise and surprisingly inoffensive for a film about a teen in love with his stepmom . |
39 | 0 | . . . a vast adventure that bristles with romance , action and heroism . |
40 | 0 | it was only a matter of time before some savvy producer saw the potential success inherent in the mixture of bullock bubble and hugh goo . |
41 | 0 | one of the year's most weirdly engaging and unpredictable character pieces . |
42 | 0 | it's not a bad plot ; but , unfortunately , the movie is nowhere near as refined as all the classic dramas it borrows from . |
43 | 0 | the trials of henry kissinger is a remarkable piece of filmmaking because you get it . |
44 | 0 | an afterschool special without the courage of its convictions . |
45 | 0 | a merciless thriller , threateningly beautiful to look at and eerie to behold . |
46 | 0 | certain to be distasteful to children and adults alike , eight crazy nights is a total misfire . |
47 | 0 | this gorgeous epic is guaranteed to lift the spirits of the whole family . |
48 | 0 | presents a most persuasive vision of hell on earth . |
49 | 0 | no worse than a lot of the crap we've been offered this summer , and slightly better than men in black 2 as far as slapdash extraterrestrial comedies go . |
50 | 0 | elmo touts his drug as being 51 times stronger than coke . if you're looking for a tale of brits behaving badly , watch snatch again . it's 51 times better than this . |
51 | 0 | hoffman's performance is authentic to the core of his being . |
52 | 0 | i wish windtalkers had had more faith in the dramatic potential of this true story . this would have been better than the fiction it has concocted , and there still could have been room for the war scenes . |
53 | 0 | a quirky comedy set in newfoundland that cleverly captures the dry wit that's so prevalent on the rock . |
54 | 0 | exploits [headbanger] stereotypes in good fun , while adding a bit of heart and unsettling subject matter . |
55 | 0 | a dizzying digital video oddyssey through the snowy woods of upstate new york . |
56 | 0 | more than the last time around , it has elements that might help divert those bigger people who find themselves unavoidably in attendance . |
57 | 0 | the film's thoroughly recycled plot and tiresome jokes . . . drag the movie down . |
58 | 0 | a biopic about crane's life in the classic tradition but evolves into what has become of us all in the era of video . |
59 | 0 | like a comedian who starts off promisingly but then proceeds to flop , comedian runs out of steam after a half hour . |
60 | 0 | " the best disney movie since the lion king " |
61 | 0 | the storytelling may be ordinary , but the cast is one of those all-star reunions that fans of gosford park have come to assume is just another day of brit cinema . |
62 | 0 | uses sharp humor and insight into human nature to examine class conflict , adolescent yearning , the roots of friendship and sexual identity . |
63 | 0 | a mess when it comes to the characters and writing . . . but works its way underneath the skin like few movies have in recent memory . |
64 | 0 | i was perplexed to watch it unfold with an astonishing lack of passion or uniqueness . |
65 | 0 | although mainstream american movies tend to exploit the familiar , every once in a while a film arrives from the margin that gives viewers a chance to learn , to grow , to travel . |
66 | 0 | the quirky and recessive charms of co-stars martin donovan and mary-louise parker help overcome the problematic script . |
67 | 0 | the lively appeal of the last kiss lies in the ease with which it integrates thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy . |
68 | 0 | jason x has cheesy effects and a hoary plot , but its macabre , self-deprecating sense of humor makes up for a lot . |
69 | 0 | mature , graceful documentary on conservative christian parents with homosexual children . |
70 | 0 | while some will object to the idea of a vietnam picture with such a rah-rah , patriotic tone , soldiers ultimately achieves its main strategic objective : dramatizing the human cost of the conflict that came to define a generation . |
71 | 0 | i can't remember the last time i saw a movie where i wanted so badly for the protagonist to fail . |
72 | 0 | the script feels as if it started to explore the obvious voyeuristic potential of 'hypertime' but then backed off when the producers saw the grosses for spy kids . |
73 | 0 | the journey to the secret's eventual discovery is a separate adventure , and thrill enough . |
74 | 0 | the script covers huge , heavy topics in a bland , surfacey way that doesn't offer any insight into why , for instance , good things happen to bad people . |
75 | 0 | mcgrath has deftly trimmed dickens' wonderfully sprawling soap opera , the better to focus on the hero's odyssey from cowering poverty to courage and happiness . |
76 | 0 | it would be a mistake to write this movie off as yet another star is born-type biopic about the rise and fall of a latter‑ ; day celebrity . schrader is after something deeper here and even when he misses the mark , the film remains involving . |
77 | 0 | one of those decades-spanning historical epics that strives to be intimate and socially encompassing but fails to do justice to either effort in three hours of screen time . |
78 | 0 | jones has crafted a natty narrative that , enhanced by erin nordstrom's editing , is filled with payoffs . |
79 | 0 | it's all gratuitous before long , as if schwentke were fulfilling a gross-out quota for an anticipated audience demographic instead of shaping the material to fit the story . |
80 | 0 | there's not a comedic moment in this romantic comedy . |
81 | 0 | smith's approach is never to tease , except gently and in that way that makes us consider our own eccentricities and how they are expressed through our homes . |
82 | 0 | the animation merely serves up a predictable , maudlin story that swipes heavily from bambi and the lion king , yet lacks the emotional resonance of either of those movies . |
83 | 0 | beresford nicely mixes in as much humor as pathos to take us on his sentimental journey of the heart . it really is a shame that more won't get an opportunity to embrace small , sweet 'evelyn . ' |
84 | 0 | a deliberative account of a lifestyle characterized by its surface-obsession Ц one that typifies the delirium of post , pre , and extant stardom . |
85 | 0 | tsai may be ploughing the same furrow once too often . |
86 | 0 | russian ark moves beyond a simple technical exercise and into the realm of greatness . it's a masterpiece on every level . |
87 | 0 | a coming-of-age film that avoids the cartoonish clichйs and sneering humor of the genre as it provides a fresh view of an old type -- the uncertain girl on the brink of womanhood . |
88 | 0 | this humbling little film , fueled by the light comedic work of zhao benshan and the delicate ways of dong jie , is just the sort for those moviegoers who complain that 'they don't make movies like they used to anymore . ' |
89 | 0 | a documentary to make the stones weep -- as shameful as it is scary . |
90 | 0 | savvy director robert j . siegel and his co-writers keep the story subtle and us in suspense . |
91 | 0 | although olivier assayas' elegantly appointed period drama seems , at times , padded with incident in the way of a too-conscientious adaptation . . . its three-hour running time plays closer to two . |
92 | 0 | whenever you think you've figured out late marriage , it throws you for a loop . |
93 | 0 | . . . perhaps the heaviest , most joyless movie ever made about giant dragons taking over the world . |
94 | 0 | without blowing the jokes we can say that , if you have found that your sense of humor fit well with christopher guest's screen outings , you'll find yourself in the flow with shearer as well . |
95 | 0 | if oscar had a category called best bad film you thought was going to be really awful but wasn't , guys would probably be duking it out with the queen of the damned for the honor . |
96 | 0 | . . . feels as if ( there's ) a choke leash around your neck so director nick cassavetes can give it a good , hard yank whenever he wants you to feel something . |
97 | 0 | has an impact that transcends politics and some dramatic overreaching by writer-director randall wallace . |
98 | 0 | we just don't really care too much about this love story . in that setting , their struggle is simply too ludicrous and borderline insulting . |
99 | 0 | it is just too bad the film's story does not live up to its style . |
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