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400 | 0 | this thing works on no level whatsoever for me . |
401 | 0 | a working class " us vs . them " opera that leaves no heartstring untugged and no liberal cause unplundered . |
402 | 0 | if you're the kind of parent who enjoys intentionally introducing your kids to films which will cause loads of irreparable damage that years and years of costly analysis could never fix , i have just one word for you -Ц decasia |
403 | 0 | pipe dream does have its charms . the leads are natural and lovely , the pace is serene , the humor wry and sprightly . |
404 | 0 | a photographic marvel of sorts , and it's certainly an invaluable record of that special fishy community . |
405 | 0 | after an uncertain start , murder hits and generally sustains a higher plateau with bullock's memorable first interrogation of gosling . |
406 | 0 | the trick when watching godard is to catch the pitch of his poetics , savor the pleasure of his sounds and images , and ponder the historical , philosophical , and ethical issues that intersect with them . |
407 | 0 | for a debut film , skin of man , heart of beast feels unusually assured . |
408 | 0 | murder by numbers is like a couple of mediocre tv-movie -of-the-week films clumsily stuck together . |
409 | 0 | together [time out and human resources] establish mr . cantet as france's foremost cinematic poet of the workplace . |
410 | 0 | responsбvel direto pelo fracasso 'artнstico' de doce lar , o roteirista c . jay cox nгo consegue sequer aproveitar os pouquнssimos momentos em que escapa da mediocridade . |
411 | 0 | boy , has this franchise ever run out of gas . |
412 | 0 | [reno] may have a few grating gaps in logic and feels as if a good chunk of its story ended up on the cutting room floor , but there is just enough charm and humor peppered throughout to make it feel as if it wasn't a complete waste of time to sit through . |
413 | 0 | elegantly produced and expressively performed , the six musical numbers crystallize key plot moments into minutely detailed wonders of dreamlike ecstasy . |
414 | 0 | little is done to support the premise other than fling gags at it to see which ones shtick . |
415 | 0 | soderbergh seems capable only of delivering artfully lighted , earnest inquiries that lack the kind of genuine depth that would make them redeemable . |
416 | 0 | this is historical filmmaking without the balm of right-thinking ideology , either liberal or conservative . mr . scorsese's bravery and integrity in advancing this vision can hardly be underestimated . |
417 | 0 | absorbing and disturbing -- perhaps more disturbing than originally intended -- but a little clarity would have gone a long way . |
418 | 0 | sunshine state is sayles at his most robert altman-ish , purposefully juggling about a dozen narrative balls in the air , and letting the mundanity and smallish drama of everyday life tell a larger story . |
419 | 0 | this sort of cute and cloying material is far from zhang's forte and it shows . |
420 | 0 | a superfluous sequel . . . plagued by that old familiar feeling of 'let's get this thing over with' : everyone has shown up at the appointed time and place , but visible enthusiasm is mighty hard to find . |
421 | 0 | mostly honest , this somber picture reveals itself slowly , intelligently , artfully . |
422 | 0 | a generation x artifact , capturing a brief era of insanity in the sports arena that surely cannot last . |
423 | 0 | the best way to hope for any chance of enjoying this film is by lowering your expectations . then lower them a bit more . |
424 | 0 | you're not merely watching history , you're engulfed by it . |
425 | 0 | unspools like a highbrow , low-key , 102-minute infomercial , blending entrepreneurial zeal with the testimony of satisfied customers . |
426 | 0 | it may sound like a mere disease-of- the-week tv movie , but a song for martin is made infinitely more wrenching by the performances of real-life spouses seldahl and wollter . |
427 | 0 | a movie in which two not very absorbing characters are engaged in a romance you can't wait to see end . |
428 | 0 | . . . a poignant and powerful narrative that reveals that reading writing and arithmetic are not the only subjects to learn in life . |
429 | 0 | the movie understands like few others how the depth and breadth of emotional intimacy give the physical act all of its meaning and most of its pleasure . |
430 | 0 | the film is grossly contradictory in conveying its social message , if indeed there is one . |
431 | 0 | a recent favourite at sundance , this white-trash satire will inspire the affection of even those unlucky people who never owned a cassette of def leppard's pyromania . |
432 | 0 | both stars manage to be funny , but , like the recent i spy , the star chemistry begs the question of whether random gags add up to a movie . |
433 | 0 | you have to pay attention to follow all the stories , but they're each interesting . the movie is well shot and very tragic , and one to ponder after the credits roll . |
434 | 0 | ultimately , the message of trouble every day seems to be that all sexual desire disrupts life's stasis . |
435 | 0 | the locale . . . remains far more interesting than the story at hand . |
436 | 0 | pretension , in its own way , is a form of bravery . for this reason and this reason only -- the power of its own steadfast , hoity-toity convictions -- chelsea walls deserves a medal . |
437 | 0 | brings a rare , clinically specific sense of moral complexity and humanistic sympathy to the usual regimen of finger-pointing and exposure . |
438 | 0 | now as a former gong show addict , i'll admit it , my only complaint is that we didn't get more re-creations of all those famous moments from the show . |
439 | 0 | your stomach for heaven depends largely on your appetite for canned corn . |
440 | 0 | the talents of the actors helps " moonlight mile " rise above its heart-on-its-sleeve writing . |
441 | 0 | some body often looks like an episode of the tv show blind date , only less technically proficient and without the pop-up comments . |
442 | 0 | like shrek , spirit's visual imagination reminds you of why animation is such a perfect medium for children , because of the way it allows the mind to enter and accept another world . |
443 | 0 | colorful and deceptively buoyant until it suddenly pulls the rug out from under you , burkinabe filmmaker dani kouyate's reworking of a folk story whose roots go back to 7th-century oral traditions is also a pointed political allegory . |
444 | 0 | nobody seems to have cared much about any aspect of it , from its cheesy screenplay to the grayish quality of its lighting to its last-minute , haphazard theatrical release . |
445 | 0 | just isn't as weird as it ought to be . |
446 | 0 | by candidly detailing the politics involved in the creation of an extraordinary piece of music , [jones] calls our attention to the inherent conflict between commerce and creativity . |
447 | 0 | this movie seems to have been written using mad-libs . there can be no other explanation . hilariously inept and ridiculous . |
448 | 0 | it's fitting that a movie as artificial and soulless as the country bears owes its genesis to an animatronic display at disneyland . |
449 | 0 | moretti . . . is the rare common-man artist who's wise enough to recognize that there are few things in this world more complex -- and , as it turns out , more fragile -- than happiness . |
450 | 0 | this is snappy , frothy screwball comedy awash in french understatement . |
451 | 0 | seeing as the film lacks momentum and its position remains mostly undeterminable , the director's experiment is a successful one . |
452 | 0 | i'm sure if you're a hartley fan , you might enjoy yourself . . . me , i didn't care for it . |
453 | 0 | beautifully written and directed and packed with excellent performances . |
454 | 0 | whether seen on a 10-inch television screen or at your local multiplex , the edge-of-your-seat , educational antics of steve irwin are priceless entertainment . |
455 | 0 | this may not be great moviemaking . . . but it's vastly enjoyable in a low-down , scandal-mongering way . |
456 | 0 | this is almodovar's stab at serious drama , and the result is bizarre and affecting but also unsettling in ways that the filmmaker may not have intended . |
457 | 0 | thekids will probably stay amused at the kaleidoscope of big , colorful characters . mom and dad can catch some quality naptime along the way . |
458 | 0 | the storylines are woven together skilfully , the magnificent swooping aerial shots are breathtaking , and the overall experience is awesome . |
459 | 0 | a thinly veiled excuse for wilson to play his self-deprecating act against murphy's well-honed prima donna shtick . |
460 | 0 | director robert rodriguez has once again caught lightning in a bottle . |
461 | 0 | 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 . |
462 | 0 | there's something fishy about a seasonal holiday kids' movie . . . that derives its moment of most convincing emotional gravity from a scene where santa gives gifts to grownups . |
463 | 0 | some remarkable achival film about how shanghai ( of all places ) served jews who escaped the holocaust . |
464 | 0 | an entertaining but unspectacular film . pretty goofy at times - but the slick and gleefully self-indulgent violence will not disappoint the action fan . |
465 | 0 | the film , while not exactly assured in its execution , is notable for its sheer audacity and openness . |
466 | 0 | . . . could easily be called the best korean film of 2002 . |
467 | 0 | while the finished product is still fun , never dull and the athletes themselves remarkable , inspired and apt , the production could have been improved . |
468 | 0 | there are a few chuckles , but not a single gag sequence that really scores , and the stars seem to be in two different movies . |
469 | 0 | there's no real reason to see it , and no real reason not to . |
470 | 0 | the film's final hour , where nearly all the previous unseen material resides , is unconvincing soap opera that tornatore was right to cut . |
471 | 0 | at once subtle and visceral , the film never succumbs to the trap of the maudlin or tearful , offering instead with its unflinching gaze a measure of faith in the future . |
472 | 0 | a baffling subplot involving smuggling drugs inside danish cows falls flat , and if you're going to alter the bard's ending , you'd better have a good alternative . |
473 | 0 | broomfield reveals an ironic manifestation of institutionalized slavery that ties a black-owned record label with a white-empowered police force . |
474 | 0 | on balance , i recommend the movie both for nicholson's performance and for the opportunity to spend some time with the kind of man that we often meet in real life , but rarely see on screen . |
475 | 0 | if you keep a list of films you want to see one way or another , you would be doing yourself a service by keeping this film high up on that list . |
476 | 0 | it doesn't do a lot of deep thinking , but unlike many futuristic combos of sf and f/x , it does make a statement : freedom of opinion is a threat to totalitarian systems . |
477 | 0 | like edward norton in american history x , ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) delivers a magnetic performance . |
478 | 0 | nair's attention to detail creates an impeccable sense of place , while thurman and lewis give what can easily be considered career-best performances . |
479 | 0 | the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 times too many or else too few . |
480 | 0 | pc stability notwithstanding , the film suffers from a simplistic narrative and a pat , fairy-tale conclusion . |
481 | 0 | the talented and clever robert rodriguez perhaps put a little too much heart into his first film and didn't reserve enough for his second . |
482 | 0 | tartakovsky's team has some freakish powers of visual charm , but the five writers slip into the modern rut of narrative banality . |
483 | 0 | the film boasts dry humor and jarring shocks , plus moments of breathtaking mystery . |
484 | 0 | you will emerge with a clearer view of how the gears of justice grind on and the death report comes to share airtime alongside the farm report . |
485 | 0 | interesting both as a historical study and as a tragic love story . |
486 | 0 | its salient points are simultaneously buried , drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary . |
487 | 0 | the emotional overload of female angst irreparably drags the film down . |
488 | 0 | a lot rides on coincidence . or fate . or the magic pull of the moon . it all makes sense in the end . |
489 | 0 | i thought my own watch had stopped keeping time as i slogged my way through clockstoppers . |
490 | 0 | it challenges , this nervy oddity , like modern art should . |
491 | 0 | an amusing , breezily apolitical documentary about life on the campaign trail . |
492 | 0 | there's not enough here to justify the almost two hours . |
493 | 0 | reeks of rot and hack work from start to finish . |
494 | 0 | lillard and cardellini earn their scooby snacks , but not anyone else . |
495 | 0 | an inept , tedious spoof of '70s kung fu pictures , it contains almost enough chuckles for a three-minute sketch , and no more . |
496 | 0 | you know you're in for a good ol' popcorn-munching time when the movie's tagline is a bad pun on the title of a piece of fine literature . |
497 | 0 | an engaging and specific portrait of a culture in transition , even as it evokes humanity's most universal and timeless values . |
498 | 0 | if this is the danish idea of a good time , prospective tourists might want to consider a different destination -- some jolly country embroiled in a bloody civil war , perhaps . |
499 | 0 | i have a confession to make : i didn't particularly like e . t . the first time i saw it as a young boy . that is because - damn it ! - i also wanted a little alien as a friend ! |