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175 | bleakly funny , its characters all the more touching for refusing to pity or memorialize themselves . | 1 |
546 | on the heels of the ring comes a similarly morose and humorless horror movie that , although flawed , is to be commended for its straight-ahead approach to creepiness . | 1 |
746 | people cinema at its finest . | 1 |
250 | one of the more intelligent children 's movies to hit theaters this year . | 1 |
167 | the end result is a film that 's neither . | 0 |
473 | thanks to haynes ' absolute control of the film 's mood , and buoyed by three terrific performances , far from heaven actually pulls off this stylistic juggling act . | 1 |
388 | when leguizamo finally plugged an irritating character late in the movie . | 0 |
276 | for this reason and this reason only -- the power of its own steadfast , hoity-toity convictions -- chelsea walls deserves a medal . | 1 |
655 | birthday girl is an amusing joy ride , with some surprisingly violent moments . | 1 |
704 | a bloated gasbag thesis grotesquely impressed by its own gargantuan aura of self-importance ... | 0 |
570 | seldahl 's barbara is a precise and moving portrait of someone whose world is turned upside down , first by passion and then by illness . | 1 |
224 | nothing 's at stake , just a twisty double-cross you can smell a mile away -- still , the derivative nine queens is lots of fun . | 1 |
701 | even 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 . | 0 |
332 | broomfield turns his distinctive ` blundering ' style into something that could really help clear up the case . | 1 |
786 | the film makes a fatal mistake : it asks us to care about a young man whose only apparent virtue is that he is not quite as unpleasant as some of the people in his life . | 0 |
794 | it confirms fincher 's status as a film maker who artfully bends technical know-how to the service of psychological insight . | 1 |
57 | the cold turkey would 've been a far better title . | 0 |
234 | affleck and jackson are good sparring partners . | 1 |
841 | there 's a wickedly subversive bent to the best parts of birthday girl . | 1 |
32 | a gorgeous , witty , seductive movie . | 1 |
824 | late marriage 's stiffness is unlikely to demonstrate the emotional clout to sweep u.s. viewers off their feet . | 0 |
323 | a painfully funny ode to bad behavior . | 1 |
410 | what distinguishes time of favor from countless other thrillers is its underlying concern with the consequences of words and with the complicated emotions fueling terrorist acts . | 1 |
274 | it 's hard to like a film about a guy who is utterly unlikeable , and shiner , starring michael caine as an aging british boxing promoter desperate for a taste of fame and fortune , is certainly that . | 0 |
67 | a fast , funny , highly enjoyable movie . | 1 |
216 | 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 . | 1 |
580 | it takes a certain kind of horror movie to qualify as ` worse than expected , ' but ghost ship somehow manages to do exactly that . | 0 |
735 | the experience of going to a film festival is a rewarding one ; the experiencing of sampling one through this movie is not . | 0 |
322 | that 's pure pr hype . | 0 |
217 | once ( kim ) begins to overplay the shock tactics and bait-and-tackle metaphors , you may decide it 's too high a price to pay for a shimmering picture postcard . | 0 |
671 | two hours fly by -- opera 's a pleasure when you do n't have to endure intermissions -- and even a novice to the form comes away exhilarated . | 1 |
511 | lapaglia 's ability to convey grief and hope works with weaver 's sensitive reactions to make this a two-actor master class . | 1 |
405 | outer-space buffs might love this film , but others will find its pleasures intermittent . | 0 |
658 | a smart , witty follow-up . | 1 |
469 | so unremittingly awful that labeling it a dog probably constitutes cruelty to canines . | 0 |
146 | about a manga-like heroine who fights back at her abusers , it 's energetic and satisfying if not deep and psychological . | 1 |
271 | as unseemly as its title suggests . | 1 |
142 | what better message than ` love thyself ' could young women of any size receive ? | 1 |
252 | blanchett 's performance confirms her power once again . | 1 |
762 | it 's a lovely film with lovely performances by buy and accorsi . | 1 |
574 | a broad , melodramatic estrogen opera that 's pretty toxic in its own right . | 0 |
551 | nothing in waking up in reno ever inspired me to think of its inhabitants as anything more than markers in a screenplay . | 0 |
269 | with virtually no interesting elements for an audience to focus on , chelsea walls is a triple-espresso endurance challenge . | 0 |
764 | movie fans , get ready to take off ... the other direction . | 0 |
598 | nonsensical , dull `` cyber-horror '' flick is a grim , hollow exercise in flat scares and bad acting . | 0 |
438 | the movie has an infectious exuberance that will engage anyone with a passing interest in the skate/surf culture , the l.a. beach scene and the imaginative ( and sometimes illegal ) ways kids can make a playground out of the refuse of adults . | 1 |
597 | visually rather stunning , but ultimately a handsome-looking bore , the true creativity would have been to hide treasure planet entirely and completely reimagine it . | 0 |
408 | there are simply too many ideas floating around -- part farce , part sliding doors , part pop video -- and yet failing to exploit them . | 0 |
370 | partway through watching this saccharine , easter-egg-colored concoction , you realize that it is made up of three episodes of a rejected tv show . | 0 |
860 | stephen rea , aidan quinn , and alan bates play desmond 's legal eagles , and when joined by brosnan , the sight of this grandiloquent quartet lolling in pretty irish settings is a pleasant enough thing , ` tis . | 1 |
141 | the character of zigzag is not sufficiently developed to support a film constructed around him . | 0 |
521 | comes off like a rejected abc afterschool special , freshened up by the dunce of a screenwriting 101 class . | 0 |
505 | and that 's a big part of why we go to the movies . | 1 |
93 | if steven soderbergh 's ` solaris ' is a failure it is a glorious failure . | 1 |
773 | it 's a beautiful madness . | 1 |
48 | has a lot of the virtues of eastwood at his best . | 1 |
112 | hilariously inept and ridiculous . | 1 |
156 | manages to transcend the sex , drugs and show-tunes plot into something far richer . | 1 |
642 | this re-do is so dumb and so exploitative in its violence that , ironically , it becomes everything that the rather clumsy original was railing against . | 0 |
163 | slapstick buffoonery can tickle many a preschooler 's fancy , but when it costs a family of four about $ 40 to see a film in theaters , why spend money on a dog like this when you can rent a pedigree instead ? | 0 |
811 | the affectionate loopiness that once seemed congenital to demme 's perspective has a tough time emerging from between the badly dated cutesy-pie mystery scenario and the newfangled hollywood post-production effects . | 0 |
696 | for the first time in years , de niro digs deep emotionally , perhaps because he 's been stirred by the powerful work of his co-stars . | 1 |
432 | coughs and sputters on its own postmodern conceit . | 0 |
610 | like you could n't smell this turkey rotting from miles away . | 0 |
65 | you wonder why enough was n't just a music video rather than a full-length movie . | 0 |
394 | whether writer-director anne fontaine 's film is a ghost story , an account of a nervous breakdown , a trip down memory lane , all three or none of the above , it is as seductive as it is haunting . | 1 |
390 | mattei is tiresomely grave and long-winded , as if circularity itself indicated profundity . | 0 |
808 | enormously entertaining for moviegoers of any age . | 1 |
479 | it 's a stunning lyrical work of considerable force and truth . | 1 |
541 | the most compelling wiseman epic of recent years . | 1 |
257 | taylor appears to have blown his entire budget on soundtrack rights and had nothing left over for jokes . | 0 |
566 | does little more than play an innocuous game of fill-in - the-blanks with a tragic past . | 0 |
11 | it takes a strange kind of laziness to waste the talents of robert forster , anne meara , eugene levy , and reginald veljohnson all in the same movie . | 0 |
810 | this is a good script , good dialogue , funny even for adults . | 1 |
738 | ... a magnificent drama well worth tracking down . | 1 |
117 | moody , heartbreaking , and filmed in a natural , unforced style that makes its characters seem entirely convincing even when its script is not . | 1 |
698 | an interesting 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 . '' | 1 |
549 | a coarse and stupid gross-out . | 0 |
768 | a compelling spanish film about the withering effects of jealousy in the life of a young monarch whose sexual passion for her husband becomes an obsession . | 1 |
273 | minority report is exactly what the title indicates , a report . | 1 |
787 | a valueless kiddie paean to pro basketball underwritten by the nba . | 0 |
656 | so much facile technique , such cute ideas , so little movie . | 1 |
348 | just one bad idea after another . | 0 |
114 | it haunts you , you ca n't forget it , you admire its conception and are able to resolve some of the confusions you had while watching it . | 1 |
300 | fun , flip and terribly hip bit of cinematic entertainment . | 1 |
445 | even in its most tedious scenes , russian ark is mesmerizing . | 1 |
161 | not exactly the bees knees | 0 |
464 | intriguing documentary which is emotionally diluted by focusing on the story 's least interesting subject . | 1 |
3 | the acting , costumes , music , cinematography and sound are all astounding given the production 's austere locales . | 1 |
739 | oscar wilde 's masterpiece , the importance of being earnest , may be the best play of the 19th century . | 1 |
736 | american chai encourages rueful laughter at stereotypes only an indian-american would recognize . | 0 |
829 | teen movies have really hit the skids . | 0 |
512 | villeneuve spends too much time wallowing in bibi 's generic angst ( there are a lot of shots of her gazing out windows ) . | 0 |
182 | i sympathize with the plight of these families , but the movie does n't do a very good job conveying the issue at hand . | 0 |
519 | moretti 's compelling anatomy of grief and the difficult process of adapting to loss . | 0 |
108 | too often , the viewer is n't reacting to humor so much as they are wincing back in repugnance . | 0 |
640 | an important movie , a reminder of the power of film to move us and to make us examine our values . | 1 |
305 | what was once original has been co-opted so frequently that it now seems pedestrian . | 0 |
654 | a science-fiction pastiche so lacking in originality that if you stripped away its inspirations there would be precious little left . | 0 |
777 | 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 . | 1 |
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