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a `` home alone `` film that is staged like `` rosemary 's baby , `` but is not as well-conceived as either of those films . | 1 | subjective |
you may feel compelled to watch the film twice or pick up a book on the subject . | 1 | subjective |
here , adrian lyne comes as close to profundity as he is likely to get . | 1 | subjective |
then , he must take the money from the e sale to the industrial district where a drunken old gun runner makes him hide in the closet when he gets a visitor then he takes the gun to a modern day opium den where t-mon , a spaced out pimp , can not get a card trick right . | 0 | objective |
will amuse and provoke adventurous adults in specialty venues . | 1 | subjective |
a master at being everybody but himself he reveals to his friend and confidant saiid ( isa totah ) the truth behind his struggles . | 0 | objective |
simon , an angel sent by god shows jordan a clear path . | 0 | objective |
george , a handsome english knight , unsettled by the horrendous bloodletting he witnessed in palestine , desires to hang up his sword and settle down to a quiet , peaceful life . | 0 | objective |
possibly not since grumpy old men have i heard a film so solidly connect with one demographic while striking out with another . | 1 | subjective |
in the story , he is weary of being kept within the walls of his father 's ( and soon to be his ) kingdom . | 0 | objective |
interacting eyeball-to-eyeball and toe-to-toe , hopkins and norton are a winning combination -- but fiennes steals 'red dragon ' right from under their noses . | 1 | subjective |
you 'll just have your head in your hands wondering why lee 's character did n't just go to a bank manager and save everyone the misery . | 1 | subjective |
he is intelligent and has a sense of humour . | 0 | objective |
while being led away , some re-agent falls from his pocket where it is picked up by a young man that was camping nearby . | 0 | objective |
director nalin pan does n't do much to weigh any arguments one way or the other . he simply presents his point of view that ayurveda works . no question . | 1 | subjective |
caught in this battle of wills is clara 's daughter , victoria , who finds she is about to be married into the same faith that murdered her father . | 0 | objective |
isabel intends for her family to go to istanbul , the only place where jews can live freely , but clara is reluctant to leave . | 0 | objective |
{ esther buffy } a young vibrant chinese american female who desperately tries to please her strict parents along the way of trying to find herself . | 0 | objective |
they carry out a sentence pronounced by rule of law . | 0 | objective |
you have enough finely tuned acting to compensate for the movie 's failings . | 1 | subjective |
the longer one watches this determinedly ragged portrait of blue-collar teenage desperation . . . the more one gets absorbed in the utter unbridled nihilism of its 'characters . ' | 1 | subjective |
there are moments in this account of the life of artist frida kahlo that are among cinema 's finest this year . unfortunately , they 're sandwiched in between the most impossibly dry account of kahlo 's life imaginable . | 1 | subjective |
his search soon sends him down a dangerous path . . . | 0 | objective |
but when those worlds collide , taking the lives of his wife and younger son , sullivan and his surviving son , michael jr . , leave their sedate home life behind and embark on a startling journey of revenge . | 0 | objective |
when you find yourself rooting for the monsters in a horror movie , you know the picture is in trouble . | 1 | subjective |
like its title character , this nicholas nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances -- and , also like its hero , it remains brightly optimistic , coming through in the end . | 1 | subjective |
swiftly deteriorates into a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity project for lead actress andie macdowell . | 1 | subjective |
in addition , the detective has to deal with a serial killer who had already killed and mutilated many women . | 0 | objective |
a compelling allegory about the last days of germany 's democratic weimar republic . | 1 | subjective |
just on the other side of thirty , dave is an unemployed sculptor clumsily going nowhere in a small town . | 0 | objective |
it gets bogged down by hit-and-miss topical humour before getting to the truly good stuff . | 1 | subjective |
the film boasts dry humor and jarring shocks , plus moments of breathtaking mystery . | 1 | subjective |
the four feathers is definitely horse feathers , but if you go in knowing that , you might have fun in this cinematic sandbox . | 1 | subjective |
there 's not a fresh idea at the core of this tale . | 1 | subjective |
this attractive , 30 year old successful graphic designer with a captivating personality has n't had a good date in over a year , and she 's not alone - her best friends share the same problem . | 0 | objective |
undercover fbi agent and former marine frank castle ( jane ) is devastated when his wife and children are killed when they accidentally witness a mafia hit , and with nothing left to lose , decides to dedicate himself fully to the eradication of crime ( organized and otherwise ) from america , as an army , assassin , judge and jury all rolled up into one man ( and a whole lot of guns ) : the punisher . | 0 | objective |
it 's thoroughly entertaining and nonpatronizing , and occasionally even insightful . | 1 | subjective |
a minor film with major pleasures from portuguese master manoel de oliviera . . . | 1 | subjective |
vega and ulloa give strong performances as the leading lovers and there are some strong supporting turns , particularly from najwa nimri . | 1 | subjective |
despite the holes in the story and the somewhat predictable plot , moments of the movie caused me to jump in my chair . . . | 1 | subjective |
when he finds out she is gay he starts to do his homework . | 0 | objective |
it 's difficult to imagine the process that produced such a script , but here 's guessing that spray cheese and underarm noises played a crucial role . | 1 | subjective |
for decades we 've marveled at disney 's rendering of water , snow , flames and shadows in a hand-drawn animated world . prepare to marvel again . | 1 | subjective |
whistle completes the trilogy started in from here to eternity and the thin red line . | 0 | objective |
when anti-death-penalty activist david gale is convicted and condemned to death for the murder of a colleague , reporter bitsey bloom sets out to learn the story behind gale 's crime . | 0 | objective |
a captivatingly quirky hybrid of character portrait , romantic comedy and beat-the-clock thriller . | 1 | subjective |
they all decide to go together and they leave . | 0 | objective |
the family come from a long line of masters of disguise who are able to mask themselves as almost anyone or anything by harnessing the great power of energico . | 0 | objective |
if we do n't demand a standard of quality for the art that we choose , we deserve the trash that we get . | 1 | subjective |
the corrupt wizard saruman ( christopher lee ) , under the power of the dark lord sauron , and his slimy assistant , gr & # 237 ; ma wormtongue ( brad dourif ) , have created a grand uruk-hai army bent on the destruction of man and middle-earth . | 0 | objective |
everything about the quiet american is good , except its timing . | 1 | subjective |
sandler has played weirdos for zany comic effect , and it 's interesting to finally see him play one in a relatively subdued romantic dramedy . | 1 | subjective |
delia , greta , and paula rank as three of the most multilayered and sympathetic female characters of the year . as each of them searches for their place in the world , miller digs into their very minds to find an unblinking , flawed humanity . | 1 | subjective |
little does caroline realize that this delicious parisian beauty is a modern-day vampire looking for vunerable victims . | 0 | objective |
not a bad way to spend a couple of hours . | 1 | subjective |
nothing more than a widget cranked out on an assembly line to see if stupid americans will get a kick out of goofy brits with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks . | 1 | subjective |
just too silly and sophomoric to ensnare its target audience . | 1 | subjective |
when it 's over all that they got is a bag full of black gems which is what the man who hired them wanted . | 0 | objective |
the elders hope to return home quickly but their new friend has other plans . | 0 | objective |
it is survival of the fittest as the friendships are pushed to the limit . | 0 | objective |
the film fits into a genre that has been overexposed , redolent of a thousand cliches , and yet remains uniquely itself , vibrant with originality . | 1 | subjective |
una works as a supermarket cashier hating her work and everybody around : the costumers , the manager , the staff . | 0 | objective |
amerika and zed are upset that kyle is spending more time with trasha than with them . | 0 | objective |
the raw footage gives us an alternate insight to chaplin 's classic film which started production years before adolph hitler was seen as a major threat in the western world . | 0 | objective |
the orchestra player gets known to his neighbour , a gay man having also relationship troubles , and together they are trying hard to find a way how to go on with their lifes . | 0 | objective |
roger swanson is a hopelessly cynical advertising copywriter with a razor-sharp wit who believes he has mastered the art of manipulating women . | 0 | objective |
if divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood suffers from a ploddingly melodramatic structure , it comes to life in the performances . | 1 | subjective |
an overblown clunker full of bad jokes , howling cliches and by-the-numbers action sequences . | 1 | subjective |
she meets ian miller , a high school english teacher , wasp , and dreamboat she had made a fool of herself over at the restaurant ; they date secretly for a while before her family finds out . | 0 | objective |
a very slow , uneventful ride around a pretty tattered old carousel . | 1 | subjective |
his first challenge is from the chinese workers , technicians , and officers , who have been trained to work under the old system and unable to function sufficiently in the new era of international competition . | 0 | objective |
if your taste runs to 'difficult ' films you absolutely ca n't miss it . | 1 | subjective |
he 's fascinated by a candy machine , and asks his mother for money , but she refuses . | 0 | objective |
as violent , profane and exploitative as the most offensive action flick you 've ever seen . | 1 | subjective |
the film 's apocalyptic urban setting and unrelentingly icy zeitgeist is message enough without a triumphant parting shot | 1 | subjective |
with the support of her best friend wilma watson and their draft-dodging companion will bacon , emily is able to stand by her convictions in a household dominated by the standards of a salt-of-the-earth father and an unconditionally loving mother . | 0 | objective |
well as a hero in the guise of prince charmont , whom ella falls in love with . | 0 | objective |
after spending a year in a mental instituton , molly peters finally returns home to her mother . | 0 | objective |
content merely to lionize its title character and exploit his anger - all for easy sanctimony , formulaic thrills and a ham-fisted sermon on the need for national health insurance . | 1 | subjective |
undercover brother does n't go far enough . it 's just a silly black genre spoof . | 1 | subjective |
the footage of the rappers at play and the prison interview with suge knight are just two of the elements that will grab you . | 1 | subjective |
takes one character we do n't like and another we do n't believe , and puts them into a battle of wills that is impossible to care about and is n't very funny . | 1 | subjective |
an entertaining , grimy view of the traps of machismo tucked inside a cop thriller . | 1 | subjective |
the subject of swinging still seems ripe for a documentary -- just not this one . | 1 | subjective |
how does it play a significant role in japanese culture , and why does it fascinate american youth ? | 0 | objective |
even the hastily and amateurishly drawn animation can not engage . | 1 | subjective |
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 . | 1 | subjective |
but for the shell-shocked crew , trapped together in the sub 's narrow corridors and constricted spaces , this is about to become a journey into the sensory delusions , mental deceptions and runaway fear that lurk just below the surface of the ocean and deep inside the human psyche . | 0 | objective |
through time travel wells and twain team up with sir arthur conan doyle and a young jules verne and wind up in the year 2001 seeing results of their writings that help in their attempts to find dr . noah and save the world from destruction . | 0 | objective |
arrested and imprisoned in a juvenile detention facility , leland comes in contact with an aspiring writer and prison teacher , pearl madison ( cheadle ) . | 0 | objective |
if you 're not the target demographic . . . this movie is one long chick-flick slog . | 1 | subjective |
daughter from danang sticks with its subjects a little longer and tells a deeper story | 1 | subjective |
as it stands it 's an opera movie for the buffs . | 1 | subjective |
ranks with such films as in the bedroom , ordinary people , and terms of endearment in the sensitivity with which it observes the effect a child 's death on the remaining members of the family . | 1 | subjective |
the theme of the film simultaneously addresses the similarities between the two factions of law and crime while revealing the similarities between the two brothers . | 0 | objective |
gooding is the energetic frontman , and it 's hard to resist his enthusiasm , even if the filmmakers come up with nothing original in the way of slapstick sequences . | 1 | subjective |
when the singing veggies encounter some car trouble , they 're stranded at old , rundown seafood joint where nothing is quite as it seems . | 0 | objective |
he becomes the man he always should have ( and could have ) been . | 0 | objective |
imax films can sometimes feel like a gimmick , but this is one subject that demands a scope as big as the imagination . | 1 | subjective |
unlike most teen flicks , swimming takes its time to tell its story , casts mostly little-known performers in key roles , and introduces some intriguing ambiguity . | 1 | subjective |