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schindler's list it ain't . | 0 |
never again swings between false sentiment and unfunny madcap comedy and , along the way , expects the audience to invest in the central relationship as some kind of marriage of true minds . | 0 |
la de salma es una versi贸n de frida superficial , preciosista y sin ning煤n contenido . | 0 |
it's better than mid-range steven seagal , but not as sharp as jet li on rollerblades . | 0 |
these characters are so well established that the gang feels comfortable with taking insane liberties and doing the goofiest stuff out of left field , and i'm all for that . | 1 |
everything about the quiet american is good , except its timing . | 1 |
notorious c . h . o . has oodles of vulgar highlights . | 1 |
it's hard to believe these jokers are supposed to have pulled off four similar kidnappings before . | 0 |
one problem with the movie , directed by joel schumacher , is that it jams too many prefabricated story elements into the running time . | 0 |
a plodding look at the french revolution through the eyes of aristocrats . | 0 |
" birthday girl " is an actor's movie first and foremost . | 1 |
a rock-solid gangster movie with a fair amount of suspense , intriguing characters and bizarre bank robberies , plus a heavy dose of father-and-son dynamics . | 1 |
two badly interlocked stories drowned by all too clever complexity . | 0 |
if looking for a thrilling sci-fi cinematic ride , don't settle for this imposter . | 0 |
amid the clich茅 and foreshadowing , cage manages a degree of casual realism . . . that is routinely dynamited by blethyn . | 0 |
hey , who else needs a shower ? | 1 |
[two] fairly dull -- contrasting and interlocking stories about miserable scandinavian settlers in 18th-century canada , and yuppie sailboaters in the here and now . | 0 |
busy urban comedy is clearly not zhang's forte , his directorial touch is neither light nor magical enough to bring off this kind of whimsy . | 0 |
claire is a terrific role for someone like judd , who really ought to be playing villains . | 1 |
it's a charming and often affecting journey . | 1 |
has the feel of an unedited personal journal . | 0 |
personal velocity ought to be exploring these women's inner lives , but it never moves beyond their surfaces . | 0 |
another love story in 2002's remarkable procession of sweeping pictures that have reinvigorated the romance genre . | 1 |
it's an old story , but a lively script , sharp acting and partially animated interludes make just a kiss seem minty fresh . | 1 |
" my god , i'm behaving like an idiot ! " yes , you are , ben kingsley . | 0 |
the overall feel of the film is pretty cheesy , but there's still a real sense that the star trek tradition has been honored as best it can , given the embarrassing script and weak direction . | 0 |
fear permeates the whole of stortelling , todd solondz' oftentimes funny , yet ultimately cowardly autocritique . | 0 |
represents the depths to which the girls-behaving-badly film has fallen . | 0 |
de oliveira creates an emotionally rich , poetically plump and visually fulsome , but never showy , film whose bittersweet themes are reinforced and brilliantly personified by michel piccoli . | 1 |
a jewish ww ii doc that isn't trying simply to out-shock , out-outrage or out-depress its potential audience ! who knew . . . | 1 |
a wildly erratic drama with sequences that make you wince in embarrassment and others , thanks to the actors , that are quite touching . | 0 |
the ingenious construction ( adapted by david hare from michael cunningham's novel ) constantly flows forwards and back , weaving themes among three strands which allow us to view events as if through a prism | 1 |
this clever caper movie has twists worthy of david mamet and is enormous fun for thinking audiences . | 1 |
at 78 minutes it just zings along with vibrance and warmth . | 1 |
lame , haphazard teen comedy . | 0 |
gaunt , silver-haired and leonine , [harris] brings a tragic dimension and savage full-bodied wit and cunning to the aging sandeman . | 1 |
what you expect is just what you get . . . assuming the bar of expectations hasn't been raised above sixth-grade height . | 0 |
well-done supernatural thriller with keen insights into parapsychological phenomena and the soulful nuances of the grieving process . | 1 |
somewhere short of tremors on the modern b-scene : neither as funny nor as clever , though an agreeably unpretentious way to spend ninety minutes . | 1 |
a well-made and often lovely depiction of the mysteries of friendship . | 1 |
it's a solid movie about people whose lives are anything but . | 1 |
there is no entry portal in the rules of attraction , and i spent most of the movie feeling depressed by the shallow , selfish , greedy characters . | 0 |
just what makes us happy , anyway ? | 1 |
impeccably filmed , sexually charged , but ultimately lacking in substance , not to mention dragged down by a leaden closing act . | 0 |
the enjoyable undercover brother , a zany mix of saturday night live-style parody , '70s blaxploitation films and goofball action comedy gone wild , dishes out a ton of laughs that everyone can enjoy . | 1 |
unintelligible , poorly acted , brain-slappingly bad , harvard man is ludicrous enough that it could become a cult classic . | 0 |
it's mildly entertaining , especially if you find comfort in familiarity . but it's hardly a necessary enterprise . | 1 |
" the quiet american " begins in saigon in 1952 . that's its first sign of trouble . | 1 |
toward the end sum of all fears morphs into a mundane '70s disaster flick . | 0 |
this action-thriller/dark comedy is one of the most repellent things to pop up in a cinematic year already littered with celluloid garbage . | 0 |
a quiet family drama with a little bit of romance and a dose of darkness . | 1 |
what's really sad is to see two academy award winning actresses ( and one academy award winning actor ) succumb to appearing in this junk that's tv sitcom material at best . | 0 |
poignant and moving , a walk to remember is an inspirational love story , capturing the innocence and idealism of that first encounter . | 1 |
it's difficult to say whether the tuxedo is more boring or embarrassing--i'm prepared to call it a draw . | 0 |
it's the kind of under-inspired , overblown enterprise that gives hollywood sequels a bad name . | 0 |
labute can't avoid a fatal mistake in the modern era : he's changed the male academic from a lower-class brit to an american , a choice that upsets the novel's exquisite balance and shreds the fabric of the film . | 0 |
squandering his opportunity to make absurdist observations , burns gets caught up in the rush of slapstick thoroughfare . | 0 |
what the director can’ ; t do is make either of val kilmer’ ; s two personas interesting or worth caring about . | 0 |
a lame comedy . | 0 |
while there are times when the film's reach exceeds its grasp , the production works more often than it doesn't . | 1 |
[sen's] soap opera-ish approach undermines his good intentions . | 0 |
the jokes are flat , and the action looks fake . | 0 |
louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode , and brother hoffman's script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just doesn't make sense . | 0 |
trite , banal , cliched , mostly inoffensive . | 0 |
feels haphazard , as if the writers mistakenly thought they could achieve an air of frantic spontaneity by simply tossing in lots of characters doing silly stuff and stirring the pot . | 0 |
dignified ceo's meet at a rustic retreat and pee against a tree . can you bear the laughter ? | 0 |
informative , intriguing , observant , often touching . . . gives a human face to what's often discussed in purely abstract terms . | 1 |
a three-hour cinema master class . | 1 |
confessions may not be a straightforward bio , nor does it offer much in the way of barris' motivations , but the film is an oddly fascinating depiction of an architect of pop culture . | 1 |
a sensual performance from abbass buoys the flimsy story , but her inner journey is largely unexplored and we're left wondering about this exotic-looking woman whose emotional depths are only hinted at . | 0 |
you've already seen heartbreak if you've watched the far superior nurse betty or sunset boulevard . even the unwatchable soapdish is more original . | 0 |
michael moore's latest documentary about america's thirst for violence is his best film yet . . . | 1 |
funny and touching . | 1 |
a romantic comedy that operates by the rules of its own self-contained universe . | 1 |
murderous maids pulls no punches in its depiction of the lives of the papin sister and the events that led to their notorious rise to infamy . . . | 1 |
what elevates the movie above the run-of-the-mill singles blender is its surreal sense of humor and technological finish . | 1 |
oddly compelling . | 1 |
you're better off staying home and watching the x-files . | 0 |
andy garcia enjoys one of his richest roles in years and mick jagger gives his best movie performance since , well , performance . | 1 |
full frontal is the antidote for soderbergh fans who think he's gone too commercial since his two oscar nominated films in 2000 | 1 |
real women may have many agendas , but it also will win you over , in a big way . | 1 |
a film of quiet power . | 1 |
star/producer salma hayek and director julie taymor have infused frida with a visual style unique and inherent to the titular character's paintings and in the process created a masterful work of art of their own . | 1 |
the film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises . | 0 |
the funny thing is , i didn't mind all this contrived nonsense a bit . | 1 |
though the story . . . is hackneyed , the characters have a freshness and modesty that transcends their predicament . | 1 |
damon brings the proper conviction to his role as [jason bourne] . | 1 |
this is art paying homage to art . | 1 |
it could have been something special , but two things drag it down to mediocrity -- director clare peploe's misunderstanding of marivaux's rhythms , and mira sorvino's limitations as a classical actress . | 0 |
the film equivalent of a toy chest whose contents get scattered over the course of 80 minutes . | 0 |
places a slightly believable love triangle in a difficult-to-swallow setting , and then disappointingly moves the story into the realm of an improbable thriller . | 0 |
foster breathes life into a roll that could have otherwise been bland and run of the mill . | 1 |
between them , de niro and murphy make showtime the most savory and hilarious guilty pleasure of many a recent movie season . | 1 |
a fascinating glimpse into an insular world that gives the lie to many clich茅s and showcases a group of dedicated artists . | 1 |
her fans walked out muttering words like " horrible " and " terrible , " but had so much fun dissing the film that they didn't mind the ticket cost . in this case zero . | 0 |
slack and uninspired , and peopled mainly by characters so unsympathetic that you're left with a sour taste in your mouth . | 0 |
you may leave the theater with more questions than answers , but darned if your toes won't still be tapping . | 1 |
a cheap scam put together by some cynical creeps at revolution studios and imagine entertainment to make the suckers out there surrender $9 and 93 minutes of unrecoverable life . | 0 |
aspires for the piquant but only really achieves a sort of ridiculous sourness . | 0 |
sturdy , entertaining period drama . . . both caine and fraser have their moments . | 1 |