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200 | 0 | static , repetitive , muddy and blurry , hey arnold ! would seem to have a lock on the title of ugliest movie of the year . |
201 | 0 | offers a fascinating look into the world of upper-echelon comics . |
202 | 0 | would make an excellent companion piece to the similarly themed 'the french lieutenant's woman . ' |
203 | 0 | this movie in a single breath goes to the very heart of the russian experience . |
204 | 0 | one minute , you think you're watching a serious actioner ; the next , it's as though clips from the pink panther strikes again and/or sailor moon have been spliced in . |
205 | 0 | it's the movie equivalent of a sweaty old guy in a rain coat shopping for cheap porn . |
206 | 0 | few films seem so wise and knowing about the fact of age and the approach of the end . |
207 | 0 | it's unnerving to see recoing's bizzarre reaction to his unemployment . good film , but very glum . |
208 | 0 | [soderbergh] tends to place most of the psychological and philosophical material in italics rather than trust an audience's intelligence , and he creates an overall sense of brusqueness . |
209 | 0 | vera's technical prowess ends up selling his film short ; he smoothes over hard truths even as he uncovers them . |
210 | 0 | that the e-graveyard holds as many good ideas as bad is the cold comfort that chin's film serves up with style and empathy . |
211 | 0 | offers 102 minutes of breezy , occasionally very funny entertainment . |
212 | 0 | absurdities and clichйs accumulate like lint in a fat man's navel . |
213 | 0 | this is a very ambitious project for a fairly inexperienced filmmaker , but good actors , good poetry and good music help sustain it . |
214 | 0 | a brain twister , less a movie-movie than a funny and weird meditation on hollywood , success , artistic integrity and intellectual bankruptcy . |
215 | 0 | the film's trailer also looked like crap , so crap is what i was expecting . |
216 | 0 | . . . although this idea is " new " the results are tired . |
217 | 0 | one of the most incoherent features in recent memory . |
218 | 0 | [javier bardem is] one of the few reasons to watch the film , which director gerardo vera has drenched in swoony music and fever-pitched melodrama . |
219 | 0 | a haunting film about one of the great escapes of all time . |
220 | 0 | beautiful , angry and sad , with a curious sick poetry , as if the marquis de sade had gone in for pastel landscapes . |
221 | 0 | it uses some of the figures from the real-life story to portray themselves in the film . the result is a powerful , naturally dramatic piece of low-budget filmmaking . |
222 | 0 | asia authors herself as anna battista , an italian superstar and aspiring directress who just happens to be her own worst enemy . |
223 | 0 | the film is way too full of itself ; it's stuffy and pretentious in a give-me-an-oscar kind of way . |
224 | 0 | this remake gets all there is to get out of a peculiar premise with promise : al pacino loathing robin williams . |
225 | 0 | can't kick about the assembled talent and the russos show genuine promise as comic filmmakers . still , this thing feels flimsy and ephemeral . |
226 | 0 | proves mainly that south korean filmmakers can make undemanding action movies with all the alacrity of their hollywood counterparts . |
227 | 0 | the film is so packed with subplots involving the various silbersteins that it feels more like the pilot episode of a tv series than a feature film . |
228 | 0 | comes off like a rejected abc afterschool special , freshened up by the dunce of a screenwriting 101 class . . . . designed to provide a mix of smiles and tears , " crossroads " instead provokes a handful of unintentional howlers and numerous yawns . |
229 | 0 | cedar takes a very open-minded approach to this sensitive material , showing impressive control , both visually and in the writing . |
230 | 0 | i can easily imagine benigni's pinocchio becoming a christmas perennial . coal isn't as easy to come by as it used to be and this would be a worthy substitute for naughty children's stockings . |
231 | 0 | although purportedly a study in modern alienation , it's really little more than a particularly slanted , gay s/m fantasy , enervating and deadeningly drawn-out . |
232 | 0 | there's plenty of style in guillermo del toro's sequel to the 1998 hit but why do we need 117 minutes to tell a tale that simply can't sustain more than 90 minutes . |
233 | 0 | tsai ming-liang's ghosts are painfully aware of their not-being . |
234 | 0 | the film serves as a valuable time capsule to remind us of the devastating horror suffered by an entire people . |
235 | 0 | several degrees shy of the gross-out contests one expects from current teen fare . |
236 | 0 | an atonal estrogen opera that demonizes feminism while gifting the most sympathetic male of the piece with a nice vomit bath at his wedding . |
237 | 0 | works as another uncompromisingly adult movie that assumes its audience is intelligent and doesn't have to cut narrative corners to make viewers feel safe . |
238 | 0 | andersson creates a world that's at once surreal and disturbingly familiar ; absurd , yet tremendously sad . |
239 | 0 | merchant effectively translates naipaul's lively mix of characters from the page to screen . |
240 | 0 | much like robin williams , death to smoochy has already reached its expiration date . |
241 | 0 | an enjoyably half-wit remake of the venerable italian comedy big deal on madonna street . |
242 | 0 | the pianist is a fine valedictory work for polanski , made richer by his own experiences , making his other movies somehow richer in the bargain . |
243 | 0 | the script by david koepp is perfectly serviceable and because he gives the story some soul . . . he elevates the experience to a more mythic level . |
244 | 0 | it's like an all-star salute to disney's cheesy commercialism . |
245 | 0 | the powerless wait a long time for justice , and sometimes their only justice is to finally tell their story . |
246 | 0 | hoffman's unfettered performance beautifully captures wilson's sad , manic quality . |
247 | 0 | the skills of a calculus major at m . i . t . are required to balance all the formulaic equations in the long-winded heist comedy who is cletis tout ? |
248 | 0 | definitely funny stuff , but it's more of the 'laughing at' variety than the 'laughing with . ' |
249 | 0 | imamura's delight in the infinite oddity of men and women is goofy ; it's also , at heart , reverent . |
250 | 0 | one of [jaglom's] better efforts -- a wry and sometime bitter movie about love . |
251 | 0 | combines improbable melodrama ( gored bullfighters , comatose ballerinas ) with subtly kinky bedside vigils and sensational denouements , and yet at the end , we are undeniably touched . |
252 | 0 | it's a fun movie with lots of colorful characters , lots of bizarre plot meanderings and quite a few memorable lines and sequences . |
253 | 0 | a sugar-coated rocky whose valuable messages are forgotten 10 minutes after the last trombone honks . |
254 | 0 | it extends the writings of jean genet and john rechy , the films of fassbinder , perhaps even the nocturnal works of goya . |
255 | 0 | mindless yet impressively lean spinoff of last summer's bloated effects fest the mummy returns . |
256 | 0 | rock's got the kind of sly charm and non- self-conscious sincerity that could fit into any action hero archetype imaginable , even the old-school ones . |
257 | 0 | like mike isn't interested in recycling old cliches . it wants to tweak them with a taste of tangy new humor . |
258 | 0 | the real reason to see runteldat is to watch lawrence deploy his deep and wide powers of empathy to depict such diverse experiences as childbirth , breast-feeding and recovering from illness . |
259 | 0 | significant for the chilling moments when the children echo the very sentiments that continue to fuel the middle east conflict . |
260 | 0 | the entire movie is filled with deja vu moments . |
261 | 0 | no number of fantastic sets , extras , costumes and spectacular locales can disguise the emptiness at the center of the story . |
262 | 0 | claude chabrol has here a thriller without thrills , but that's okay . |
263 | 0 | 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 . |
264 | 0 | terrific as nadia , a russian mail-order bride who comes to america speaking not a word of english , it's kidman who holds the film together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually accumulates more layers . |
265 | 0 | if reno is to the left of liberal on the political spectrum , her tough , funny , rather chaotic show isn't subversive so much as it is nit-picky about the hypocrisies of our time . |
266 | 0 | despite juliet stevenon's attempt to bring cohesion to pamela's emotional roller coaster life , it is not enough to give the film the substance it so desperately needs . |
267 | 0 | even the finest chef can't make a hotdog into anything more than a hotdog , and robert de niro can't make this movie anything more than a trashy cop buddy comedy . |
268 | 0 | the cast has a high time , but de broca has little enthusiasm for such antique pulp . |
269 | 0 | windtalkers celebrates the human spirit and packs an emotional wallop . |
270 | 0 | those outside show business will enjoy a close look at people they don't really want to know . |
271 | 0 | it's enough to watch huppert scheming , with her small , intelligent eyes as steady as any noir villain , and to enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tension that chabrol spins . |
272 | 0 | provides an intriguing look at how the new economy has redrawn class lines in contemporary china . |
273 | 0 | austin powers in goldmember is a cinematic car wreck , a catastrophic collision of tastelessness and gall that nevertheless will leave fans clamoring for another ride . |
274 | 0 | what's the most positive thing that can be said about the new rob schneider vehicle ? well , it's not as pathetic as the animal . |
275 | 0 | it's that rare family movie -- genuine and sweet without relying on animation or dumb humor . |
276 | 0 | while not as aggressively impressive as its american counterpart , " in the bedroom , " moretti's film makes its own , quieter observations |
277 | 0 | kids surely will like it . and for adults , it's perfectly watchable in a rugrats-y sort of way . |
278 | 0 | a canny franchise escapade ; it gets the job done . |
279 | 0 | bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystique , entertainingly reenacting a historic scandal . |
280 | 0 | the second coming of harry potter is a film far superior to its predecessor . a movie that successfully crushes a best selling novel into a timeframe that mandates that you avoid the godzilla sized soda . |
281 | 0 | hardly a masterpiece , but it introduces viewers to a good charitable enterprise and some interesting real people . |
282 | 0 | if there was any doubt that peter o'fallon didn't have an original bone in his body , a rumor of angels should dispel it . |
283 | 0 | . . . while each moment of this broken character study is rich in emotional texture , the journey doesn't really go anywhere . |
284 | 0 | a hilarious film for anyone who remembers lying as a kid -- and anyone who wants to see a movie that's just plain fun . |
285 | 0 | with its lackadaisical plotting and mindless action , all about the benjamins evokes the bottom tier of blaxploitation flicks from the 1970s . |
286 | 0 | while van wilder may not be the worst national lampoon film , it's far from being this generation's animal house . |
287 | 0 | such a good-looking picture deserved to have more depth and unpredictability in its story . but it does stand out as a personal and unique entry in a time-worn genre , and that may be good enough . |
288 | 0 | not a cozy or ingratiating work , but it's challenging , sometimes clever , and always interesting , and those are reasons enough to see it . |
289 | 0 | k-19 will not go down in the annals of cinema as one of the great submarine stories , but it is an engaging and exciting narrative of man confronting the demons of his own fear and paranoia . |
290 | 0 | chilling in its objective portrait of dreary , lost twenty-first century america . |
291 | 0 | a spiritual exploration of sorts , offering a message of hope that resonates . |
292 | 0 | a good-natured ensemble comedy that tries hard to make the most of a bumper cast , but never quite gets off the ground . |
293 | 0 | we started to wonder if some unpaid intern had just typed 'chris rock , ' 'anthony hopkins' and 'terrorists' into some univac-like script machine . |
294 | 0 | goldmember has none of the visual wit of the previous pictures , and it looks as though jay roach directed the film from the back of a taxicab . |
295 | 0 | this is a film living far too much in its own head . |
296 | 0 | while the now 72-year-old robert evans been slowed down by a stroke , he has at least one more story to tell : his own . |
297 | 0 | it has that rare quality of being able to creep the living hell out of you . . . |
298 | 0 | a well-made and often lovely depiction of the mysteries of friendship . |
299 | 0 | [jaglom] creates an engaging insider's world of enthusiastically entertaining characters and absorbing situations . |