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puts a human face on a land most westerners are unfamiliar unfamiliar with .

makes for a pretty unpleasant unpleasant viewing experience .

ahhhh ... ... revenge is sweet !

highbrow self-appointed guardians of culture need not apply , but those who loved cool as as ice have at last found a worthy follow-up .

nine queens is not only than a frighteningly capable debut and and genre piece , but also a snapshot of a dangerous political situation on the verge of coming to a head .

like you could n't smell this turkey rotting rotting from miles away .

the performances take the movie to a higher level level .

davis ... ... is so enamored of her own creation that she ca n't see how insufferable the character is .

... takes the beauty of baseball and melds it it with a story that could touch anyone regardless of their familiarity with the sport

against all odds in heaven and hell , it it creeped me out just fine .

as the latest bid bid in the tv-to-movie franchise game , i spy makes its big-screen entry with little of the nervy originality of its groundbreaking small-screen progenitor .

there 's really only one good idea in this movie , but the director runs with it and presents it with an unforgettable visual visual panache .

the so-inept - it 's - surreal dubbing ( featuring the voices of glenn close , regis philbin and and breckin meyer ) brings back memories of cheesy old godzilla flicks .

without non-stop techno or the existential overtones of a kieslowski morality tale , maelström maelström is just another winter sleepers .

an unclassifiably unclassifiably awful study in self - and audience-abuse .

the moviegoing equivalent of going to a dinner party and being forced forced to watch the host and hostess 's home video of their baby 's birth .

kinnear does n't n't aim for our sympathy , but rather delivers a performance of striking skill and depth .

few films capture so perfectly the hopes and dreams of little boys on baseball fields as well as the grown men who who sit in the stands .

it is amusing , and that 's all all it needs to be .

challenging challenging , intermittently engrossing and unflaggingly creative .

for the most most part stevens glides through on some solid performances and witty dialogue .

this flick is about as cool and crowd-pleasing as as a documentary can get .

nervous breakdowns breakdowns are not entertaining .

writer-director 's mehta 's effort has tons of charm and the whimsy is in the mixture , the intoxicating masala , of cultures cultures and film genres .

excessive , profane , packed with cartoonish cartoonish violence and comic-strip characters .

a taut psychological thriller that does n't waste a moment moment of its two-hour running time .

burns never really harnesses harnesses to full effect the energetic cast .

just embarrassment and a vague sense sense of shame .

still , as a visual visual treat , the film is almost unsurpassed .

harris commands the the screen , using his frailty to suggest the ravages of a life of corruption and ruthlessness .

or or emptying rat traps .

offers much to enjoy ... and a lot to mull over in terms of love , loyalty and the nature of staying friends friends .

the piquant story needs more dramatic meat on its its bones .

my wife is an actress is an utterly charming french comedy that feels so american in sensibility and style it 's virtually virtually its own hollywood remake .

indifferently indifferently implausible popcorn programmer of a movie .

an important movie , a reminder reminder of the power of film to move us and to make us examine our values .

the magic of the film lies not in the mysterious mysterious spring but in the richness of its performances .

this re-do is so dumb and so exploitative in its violence that , ironically , it becomes everything that the rather rather clumsy original was railing against .

the jabs it employs are short , carefully placed placed and dead-center .

while locals will get a kick out of spotting cleveland sites , the rest of the world will will enjoy a fast-paced comedy with quirks that might make the award-winning coen brothers envious .

the words , ` frankly , my dear , i do n't n't give a damn , ' have never been more appropriate .

the longer the movie goes , the worse it gets , but it 's actually pretty good in the first first few minutes .

too much of the the humor falls flat .

further proof that the epicenter of cool , beautiful , thought-provoking foreign cinema cinema is smack-dab in the middle of dubya 's axis of evil .

the film 's few ideas are stretched to the point of evaporation ; the whole central section is is one big chase that seems to have no goal and no urgency .

too slow , too long and too too little happens .

due to some script weaknesses and and the casting of the director 's brother , the film trails off into inconsequentiality .

very bad bad .

a lackluster , unessential sequel to the classic disney disney adaptation of j.m . barrie 's peter pan .

a science-fiction pastiche so lacking in originality that if you stripped away its inspirations there would be precious little left left .

birthday girl is an amusing joy joy ride , with some surprisingly violent moments .

so much facile technique , such cute ideas , so little movie movie .

expect the same-old , lame-old lame-old slasher nonsense , just with different scenery .

a smart , witty follow-up follow-up .

chabrol has taken promising material for a black black comedy and turned it instead into a somber chamber drama .

like mike mike is a winner for kids , and no doubt a winner for lil bow wow , who can now add movies to the list of things he does well .

it 's another video movie photographed like a film , with the bad lighting that 's often written off as as indie film naturalism .

there 's not enough here to justify justify the almost two hours .

it will grip even viewers who are n't interested in rap rap , as it cuts to the heart of american society in an unnerving way .

the film is beautifully mounted , but , more to the point , the issues are subtly presented , managing to walk a fine line with regard to to the question of joan 's madness .

and if you 're not nearly moved to to tears by a couple of scenes , you 've got ice water in your veins .

richard gere and diane lane put in fine performances performances as does french actor oliver martinez .

good film film , but very glum .

there are are plot holes big enough for shamu the killer whale to swim through .

preaches to two completely different choirs choirs at the same time , which is a pretty amazing accomplishment .

verbinski implements every hack-artist trick to give us the ooky-spookies ooky-spookies .

two hours fly by -- opera 's a pleasure when you do n't have to to endure intermissions -- and even a novice to the form comes away exhilarated .

in all , this is a watchable movie that 's not quite the memorable experience it might have been been .

drops you into a dizzying , volatile , pressure-cooker of a situation that quickly snowballs out of control , while focusing on the what what much more than the why .

atom egoyan has has conjured up a multilayered work that tackles any number of fascinating issues

slick piece of of cross-promotion .

well-nigh unendurable ... though the picture strains to become cinematic poetry , it remains depressingly depressingly prosaic and dull .

majidi is an unconventional storyteller storyteller , capable of finding beauty in the most depressing places .

the movie is n't just hilarious : it 's witty and inventive , too , and in hindsight , it is n't even all that that dumb .

filmmakers who can can deftly change moods are treasures and even marvels .

the vitality of the actors keeps the intensity of the film high , even as as the strafings blend together .

( a ) shapeless blob of of desperate entertainment .

in the end , the movie collapses on its shaky shaky foundation despite the best efforts of director joe carnahan .

true tale of courage -- and complicity -- at auschwitz is a harrowing harrowing drama that tries to tell of the unspeakable .

a study in shades shades of gray , offering itself up in subtle plot maneuvers ...

no screen fantasy-adventure in in recent memory has the showmanship of clones ' last 45 minutes .

more romantic , more emotional and ultimately more satisfying than the teary-eyed teary-eyed original .

this is a shameless sham , calculated calculated to cash in on the popularity of its stars .

if you 've ever entertained the notion of doing what the title of this film implies , what sex with strangers actually shows shows may put you off the idea forever .

once the 50 year old benigni appears as the title character , we find ourselves longing for the block of wood to to come back .

stultifyingly , dumbfoundingly dumbfoundingly , mind-numbingly bad .

an effectively creepy creepy , fear-inducing ( not fear-reducing ) film from japanese director hideo nakata , who takes the superstitious curse on chain letters and actually applies it .

sustains its dreamlike glide glide through a succession of cheesy coincidences and voluptuous cheap effects , not the least of which is rebecca romijn-stamos .

because of an unnecessary and clumsy last scene scene , ` swimfan ' left me with a very bad feeling .

no aspirations to social import inform the the movie version .

sit through this one , and you wo n't need a magic watch to stop time time ; your dvd player will do it for you .

for the first time time in years , de niro digs deep emotionally , perhaps because he 's been stirred by the powerful work of his co-stars .

not since tom cruise in risky risky business has an actor made such a strong impression in his underwear .

an interesting story story with a pertinent ( cinematically unique ) message , told fairly well and scored to perfection , i found myself struggling to put my finger on that elusive `` missing thing . ``

... ... routine , harmless diversion and little else .

is the time really ripe for a warmed-over james bond adventure , with a village idiot as the 007 clone clone ?

even the the finest chef ca n't make a hotdog into anything more than a hotdog , and robert de niro ca n't make this movie anything more than a trashy cop buddy comedy .

the reality of the new live-action pinocchio pinocchio he directed , cowrote and starred in borders on the grotesque .

samira makhmalbaf 's 's new film blackboards is much like the ethos of a stream of consciousness , although , it 's unfortunate for the viewer that the thoughts and reflections coming through are torpid and banal

a bloated gasbag thesis grotesquely impressed by its its own gargantuan aura of self-importance ...