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a movie that does n't aim too high , but does n't need to . | 1 | subjective |
this is a heartfelt story . . . it just is n't a very involving one . | 1 | subjective |
besides amsterdam , the movie also travels to morocco , to see larry and his love 30 years before , and to the united states , where a & # 239 ; sha 's family lives . | 0 | objective |
this is a smart movie that knows its classical music , knows its freud and knows its sade . | 1 | subjective |
it collapses when mr . taylor tries to shift the tone to a thriller 's rush . | 1 | subjective |
but then there came toni , an intriguing photographer that seemed to see inside his soul . | 0 | objective |
the two black men ( anthony and michael ) are successful in the high tech world of silicon valley , and have known each other since childhood . | 0 | objective |
for revenge , ingrid murders barry with the deadly poison of her favourite flower : the white oleander . | 0 | objective |
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 . | 1 | subjective |
if you 're willing to have fun with it , you wo n't feel cheated by the high infidelity of unfaithful . | 1 | subjective |
though it pretends to expose the life of male hustlers , it 's exploitive without being insightful . | 1 | subjective |
felice finds herself in danger from the man she came to save . | 0 | objective |
it has the air of a surprisingly juvenile lark , a pop-influenced prank whose charms are immediately apparent and wear thin with repetition . | 1 | subjective |
its heart is in the right place and the lack of cynicism comes as a pleasant surprise . | 1 | subjective |
nic is fixated on getting laid , and watches mike and nadine through the skylight with josh . | 0 | objective |
an intriguing , richly detailed look at the early days of hollywood power and glamour . | 1 | subjective |
every member of the pecking order sees the dupe as the new low man on the totem pole , and as a result , the perfect tool to boost themselves towards the top of this dysfunctional hierarchy . | 0 | objective |
the visionary quest begins on the operating table , where a surgeon grafts a prototype ocular implant into his eye socket . | 0 | objective |
upper west sidey exercise in narcissism and self-congratulation disguised as a tribute . | 1 | subjective |
is n't it a bit early in his career for director barry sonnenfeld to do a homage to himself ? and it 's a lousy one at that . | 1 | subjective |
once in ghana , otte is called before the chief 's council to explain what happened . | 0 | objective |
a terrifically deft picture about the thick line that separates movie glamour from the real world , and the thin line between common sense and paranoia . | 1 | subjective |
murder by numbers is like a couple of mediocre tv-movie -of-the-week films clumsily stuck together . | 1 | subjective |
has enough gun battles and throwaway humor to cover up the yawning chasm where the plot should be . | 1 | subjective |
forced to think fast , the producer decides to digitally create an actress `` simone `` to sub for the star -- the first totally believable synthetic actress . | 0 | objective |
there 's not one decent performance from the cast and not one clever line of dialogue . | 1 | subjective |
and finds himself in the middle of two assassination plots masterminded by the cia . | 0 | objective |
a gem of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clever , amusing and unpredictable . | 1 | subjective |
not since ghostbusters has a film used manhattan 's architecture in such a gloriously goofy way . | 1 | subjective |
tony gayton 's script does n't give us anything we have n't seen before , but director d . j . caruso 's grimy visual veneer and kilmer 's absorbing performance increase the gravitational pull considerably . | 1 | subjective |
as fran 's requests become more peculiar , chep is thrown into increasingly bizarre situations . | 0 | objective |
. . . with the candy-like taste of it fading faster than 25-cent bubble gum , i realized this is a throwaway movie that wo n't stand the test of time . it 's a trifle . | 1 | subjective |
like the original , this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen 's astringent wit . | 1 | subjective |
over months of improv work in the studio , they transform a haunting holocaust legacy into a disturbing theater piece . | 0 | objective |
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 . | 1 | subjective |
it questions whether we really live in a world that can be divided neatly into black hats and white hats . and anyway , it wonders , is the guy in the black hat always wrong ? | 1 | subjective |
josh ( anthony michael hall ) is one of those guys who ca n't navigate the shallow ny singles scene . | 0 | objective |
. . . a vast adventure that bristles with romance , action and heroism . | 1 | subjective |
it recycles every clichM-i about gays in what is essentially an extended soap opera . | 1 | subjective |
like vardalos and corbett , who play their roles with vibrant charm , the film , directed by joel zwick , is heartfelt and hilarious in ways you ca n't fake . | 1 | subjective |
but coney island 's finest its hot dog lady , rollercoaster operator , cotton candy vendor and performing freak have their own way of doing things . | 0 | objective |
ruth berman and connie kurtz first met in brooklyn in 1959 , both young married women raising their young children . | 0 | objective |
you get the feeling that the filmmakers did their homework and that they 're here to represent a harsh reality . `` | 1 | subjective |
it 's no surprise that as a director washington demands and receives excellent performances , from himself and from newcomer derek luke . | 1 | subjective |
medem packs it with so much stunning , wildly colorful imagery -- and so much sex -- that it transfixes you even when you 're not quite sure what 's going on . | 1 | subjective |
the acting is just fine , but there 's not enough substance here to sustain interest for the full 90 minutes , especially with the weak payoff . | 1 | subjective |
an uneven film dealing with too many problems to be taken seriously . | 1 | subjective |
the most ill-conceived animated comedy since the 1991 dog rover dangerfield . | 1 | subjective |
the galactic republic finds itself at the brink of a civil war . | 0 | objective |
the agonizing memory that has tortured him all his life -- the death of his father , a convicted murderer who was executed when vincent was just a boy -- still plagues him . | 0 | objective |
bernal . . . gives an ambiguous performance ; he 's a lightweight actor , but that 's a positive quality when portraying a man on whom nothing leaves a permanent mark . | 1 | subjective |
to the outside , he is a faithful servant and a fierce protector of the organization , but inside he is full of doubt . | 0 | objective |
after finishing the open examination for form 5 students and applying for an adult identity card , yoyo , eighteen , departs for london to meet a guy introduced by her well-meaning parents in britain . | 0 | objective |
what soured me on the santa clause 2 was that santa bumps up against 21st century reality so hard , it 's icky . | 1 | subjective |
'the journey ' is the story of a young icelandic girl named kaja . | 0 | objective |
the only entertainment you 'll derive from this choppy and sloppy affair will be from unintentional giggles M-^V several of them . | 1 | subjective |
although trying to balance self-referential humor and a normal ol ' slasher plot seemed like a decent endeavor , the result does n't fully satisfy either the die-hard jason fans or those who can take a good joke . | 1 | subjective |
an extraordinary swedish film about the soul adventure of marriage -- the kind of intimate and character-driven film that bille august does best . | 1 | subjective |
they are soon off going from one strange adventure to another . | 0 | objective |
[ aniston is ] so good , she manages to overcome the occasional nuggets of preciousness and self-consciousness in the story . | 1 | subjective |
majandra delfino plays iris , the sheriff 's little sister , and much to his dismay , david 's love interest . | 0 | objective |
nothing is what it seems , and no one will be the same again , as the truth begins to surface in very dangerous circumstances . | 0 | objective |
at the age of 34 , with no producing credits to his name , he landed a job as chief of production at paramount pictures . | 0 | objective |
along the way he picks up a pastor who desires to learn the deeper things of god . | 0 | objective |
ramsay and morton fill this character study with poetic force and buoyant feeling . | 1 | subjective |
she finds out that the truth about both her parents is very revealing , shocking at times , but comes to terms with her past . | 0 | objective |
all the performances are top notch and , once you get through the accents , all or nothing becomes an emotional , though still positive , wrench of a sit . | 1 | subjective |
as an exercise in stripped-down filmmaking , interview is grimly effective . | 1 | subjective |
john klein ( richard gere ) , a washington newspaper reporter leaves his job after his wife ( debra messing ) dies to investigate strange reports , including psychic visions ( `` prophecies `` ) and sightings of winged creatures ( `` mothmen `` ) , in a small west virginia town , that may be the signs of an alien invasion of earth . . . | 0 | objective |
fame hungry roxie hart dreams of a life on the vaudville stage , and spends her nights jazzing it up in the bright lights of chicago , continually hoping that she 'll find her lucky break , and be shot into 1920 's stardom , so able to flee her boring husband amos . | 0 | objective |
the principals in this cast are all fine , but bishop and stevenson are standouts . | 1 | subjective |
immediately , john q . rushes michael to the hospital 's emergency room for a transplant . | 0 | objective |
but even greater dangers lie ahead when jim discovers that his trusted friend silver is actually a scheming pirate with mutiny on his mind . | 0 | objective |
' . . . a great , participatory spectator sport . ' | 1 | subjective |
now grown up , caitlin ( emma caulfield ) calls kyle ( chaney kley ) because her little brother michael ( lee cormie ) is going through the same things he did as a boy , and wants his help . | 0 | objective |
behan himself knew how to spin a tale and one ca n't help but think he 'd appreciate this attempt to turn his life into art . | 1 | subjective |
unfortunately the third seems out of reach - the beautiful , seductive anne elise . | 0 | objective |
frank 's newest transport seems no different from the countless ones he 's done in the past . | 0 | objective |
a surreal fairy tale that coils in on itself like a slow-motion whirlpool and achieves an atmosphere of sublime creepiness without ever precisely making sense . | 1 | subjective |
a raw comedy that is intermittently hilarious as it attacks pretty much every taboo around . | 1 | subjective |
the californian desert , somewhere between death valley and los angeles . | 0 | objective |
a living testament to the power of the eccentric and the strange . the fact that it is n't very good is almost beside the point . | 1 | subjective |
a dark , dull thriller with a parting shot that misfires . | 1 | subjective |
oscar james takes ryan on a rollercoaster ride of mayhem and madness , but everything has a price and oscar wo n't let ryan easily escape this carnage-strewn nightmare 'til the final showdown when he reveals his real purpose . | 0 | objective |
[ 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 . | 1 | subjective |
after narrow escapes from the germans and a stray mine in the channel , the two men are picked up at sea and interrogated as spies . | 0 | objective |
alex enlists the aid of his old comrade father thomas ( addy ) and of a troubled artist ( sossamon ) upon whom he once performed an exorcism . | 0 | objective |
[ screenwriter ] pimental took the farrelly brothers comedy and feminized it , but it is a rather poor imitation . | 1 | subjective |
no doubt the star and everyone else involved had their hearts in the right place . where their heads were is anyone 's guess . | 1 | subjective |
rife with the rueful , wry humor springing out of yiddish culture and language . | 1 | subjective |
the story and characters are nowhere near gripping enough . | 1 | subjective |
the more dreams max has , the closer the fbi are in tracking down the kidnapper , but also as the case continues max discoveres the lies , corruption , and deceit of the government . | 0 | objective |
the film is predictable in the reassuring manner of a beautifully sung holiday carol . | 1 | subjective |
let 's issue a moratorium , effective immediately , on treacly films about inspirational prep-school professors and the children they so heartwarmingly motivate . | 1 | subjective |
'blue crush ' swims away with the sleeper movie of the summer award . | 1 | subjective |
if you love motown music , you 'll love this documentary . | 1 | subjective |
this is a beautifully sensitive portrait of a unique school and , a very special teacher . | 1 | subjective |
while on a ski trip , one of them finds passion with a beautiful girl after a random accident on the icy slopes . | 0 | objective |
chris forces mitchell to deliver guns and drugs while he hangs out on a rooftop and freaks out all day . | 0 | objective |
evergon is an affectionate tragicomedy that follows francis evergon in his last days among the unemployed . | 0 | objective |