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plays as hollow catharsis , with lots of tears but very little in the way of insights . | 0 |
simplistic fluff-ball of whimsy . | 0 |
like a grinning jack o ' lantern , its apparent glee is derived from a lobotomy , having had all its vital essence scooped out and discarded . | 0 |
it works its magic with such exuberance and passion that the film 's length becomes a part of its fun . | 1 |
demonstrates the unusual power of thoughtful , subjective filmmaking . | 1 |
an enthralling , entertaining feature . | 1 |
does what a fine documentary does best : it extends a warm invitation into an unfamiliar world , then illuminates it fully and allows the larger implications of the journey to sink in unobtrusively . | 1 |
the film is small in scope , yet perfectly formed . | 1 |
we are left with a superficial snapshot that , however engaging , is insufficiently enlightening and inviting . | 0 |
it 's not so much a movie as a joint promotion for the national basketball association and teenaged rap and adolescent poster-boy lil ' bow wow . | 0 |
though mama takes a bit too long to find its rhythm and a third-act plot development is somewhat melodramatic , its ribald humor and touching nostalgia are sure to please anyone in search of a jules and jim for the new millennium . | 1 |
it is so earnest , so overwrought and so wildly implausible that it begs to be parodied . | 0 |
the two leads , nearly perfect in their roles , bring a heart and reality that buoy the film , and at times , elevate it to a superior crime movie . | 1 |
your taste for jonah - a veggie tales movie may well depend on your threshold for pop manifestations of the holy spirit . | 0 |
stale , futile scenario . | 0 |
there is no psychology here , and no real narrative logic -- just a series of carefully choreographed atrocities , which become strangely impersonal and abstract . | 0 |
every nanosecond of the the new guy reminds you that you could be doing something else far more pleasurable . something like scrubbing the toilet . or emptying rat traps . or doing last year 's taxes with your ex-wife . | 0 |
i love the way that it took chances and really asks you to take these great leaps of faith and pays off . | 1 |
much monkeyfun for all . | 1 |
rehearsals are frequently more fascinating than the results . last dance , whatever its flaws , fulfills one facet of its mission in making me want to find out whether , in this case , that 's true . | 1 |
if routine action and jokes like this are your cup of tea , then pay your $ 8 and get ready for the big shear . this is one baaaaaaaaad movie . | 0 |
bartlett 's hero remains a reactive cipher , when opening the man 's head and heart is the only imaginable reason for the film to be made . | 0 |
the problem is that the movie has no idea of it is serious or not . | 0 |
possibly not since grumpy old men have i heard a film so solidly connect with one demographic while striking out with another . | 0 |
watching it is rather like an overlong visit from a large group of your relatives . as your relatives swap one mundane story after another , you begin to wonder if they are ever going to depart . | 0 |
the dark and bittersweet twist feels strange as things turn nasty and tragic during the final third of the film . first-timer john mckay is never able to pull it back on course . | 0 |
for a film about two mismatched buddies , crystal and de niro share little screen time and even less chemistry . | 0 |
a distinctly mixed bag , the occasional bursts of sharp writing alternating with lots of sloppiness and the obligatory moments of sentimental ooze . | 0 |
literary purists may not be pleased , but as far as mainstream matinee-style entertainment goes , it does a bang-up job of pleasing the crowds . | 1 |
there 's no clear picture of who killed bob crane . but here 's a glimpse at his life . | 1 |
for all its brilliant touches , dragon loses its fire midway , nearly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion . | 0 |
what could and should have been biting and droll is instead a tepid waste of time and talent . | 0 |
a refreshingly honest and ultimately touching tale of the sort of people usually ignored in contemporary american film . search it out . | 1 |
a strangely compelling and brilliantly acted psychological drama . | 1 |
crikey indeed . | 0 |
it further declares its director , zhang yang of shower , as a boldly experimental , contemporary stylist with a bright future . | 1 |
a historical epic with the courage of its convictions about both scope and detail . | 1 |
though avary has done his best to make something out of ellis ' nothing novel , in the end , his rules is barely worth following . | 0 |
its characters are thinner than cardboard -- or even comic-book paper . | 0 |
does n't deliver a great story , nor is the action as gripping as in past seagal films . | 0 |
this enthralling documentary . . . is at once playful and haunting , an in-depth portrait of an iconoclastic artist who was fundamentally unknowable even to his closest friends . | 1 |
. . . a boring parade of talking heads and technical gibberish that will do little to advance the linux cause . | 0 |
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 |
once ice-t sticks his mug in the window of the couple 's bmw and begins haranguing the wife in bad stage dialogue , all credibility flies out the window . | 0 |
if it tried to do anything more , it would fail and perhaps explode , but at this level of manic whimsy , it is just about right . | 1 |
broomfield turns his distinctive 'blundering ' style into something that could really help clear up the case . | 1 |
a wild , endearing , masterful documentary . | 1 |
leigh makes these lives count . and he allows a gawky actor like spall -- who could too easily become comic relief in any other film -- to reveal his impressively delicate range . | 1 |
meanders between its powerful moments . | 0 |
son of the bride may be a good half-hour too long but comes replete with a flattering sense of mystery and quietness . | 1 |
. . . there 's a choppy , surface-effect feeling to the whole enterprise . | 0 |
the screenplay , co-written by director imogen kimmel , lacks the wit necessary to fully exploit the comic elements of the premise , making the proceedings more bizarre than actually amusing . | 0 |
by not averting his eyes , solondz forces us to consider the unthinkable , the unacceptable , the unmentionable . | 1 |
every note rings false . | 0 |
a winning comedy with its wry observations about long-lived friendships and the ways in which we all lose track of ourselves by trying to please others . | 1 |
while this one gets off with a good natured warning , future lizard endeavors will need to adhere more closely to the laws of laughter | 0 |
between the drama of cube ? s personal revelations regarding what the shop means in the big picture , iconic characters gambol fluidly through the story , with charming results . | 1 |
it is a testament of quiet endurance , of common concern , of reconciled survival . | 1 |
suffers from rambling , repetitive dialogue and the visual drabness endemic to digital video . | 0 |
a big , gorgeous , sprawling swashbuckler that delivers its diversions in grand , uncomplicated fashion . | 1 |
the best you can say about it is it 's so uninspired , it barely gives one pause when considering some of the other dreck out there right now . | 0 |
a refreshing korean film about five female high school friends who face an uphill battle when they try to take their relationships into deeper waters . | 1 |
it 's loud and boring ; watching it is like being trapped at a bad rock concert . | 0 |
despite its flaws , crazy as hell marks an encouraging new direction for la salle . | 1 |
led by griffin 's smartly nuanced performance and enthusiasm , the cast has a lot of fun with the material . | 1 |
faultlessly professional but finally slight . | 0 |
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 |
what you would end up with if you took orwell , bradbury , kafka , george lucas and the wachowski brothers and threw them into a blender . but that 's just the problem with it - the director has n't added enough of his own ingredients . | 0 |
the sentimental script has problems , but the actors pick up the slack . | 1 |
a solid cast , assured direction and complete lack of modern day irony . | 1 |
unfortunately , it 's also not very good . especially compared with the television series that inspired the movie . | 0 |
the dose is strong and funny , for the first 15 minutes anyway ; after that , the potency wanes dramatically . | 0 |
a momentary escape from the summer heat and the sedentary doldrums that set in at this time of year . | 0 |
meticulously mounted , exasperatingly well-behaved film , which ticks off kahlo 's lifetime milestones with the dutiful precision of a tax accountant . | 0 |
k 19 stays afloat as decent drama/action flick | 1 |
the bottom line , at least in my opinion , is imposter makes a better short story than it does a film . | 0 |
it 's lost the politics and the social observation and become just another situation romance about a couple of saps stuck in an inarticulate screenplay . | 0 |
the film is a contrivance , as artificial as the video games japanese teens play in a nightclub sequence , but it 's an enjoyable one . | 1 |
a rarity among recent iranian films : it 's a comedy full of gentle humor that chides the absurdity of its protagonist 's plight . | 1 |
less the sensational true-crime hell-jaunt purists might like and more experimental in its storytelling ( though no less horrifying for it ) . | 1 |
i highly recommend irwin , but not in the way this film showcases him . | 0 |
it lets you brush up against the humanity of a psycho , without making him any less psycho . | 1 |
oozes condescension from every pore . | 0 |
even when foreign directors . . . borrow stuff from hollywood , they invariably shake up the formula and make it more interesting . | 1 |
flashy gadgets and whirling fight sequences may look cool , but they ca n't distract from the flawed support structure holding equilibrium up . | 0 |
it 's a humble effort , but spiced with wry humor and genuine pathos , especially between morgan and redgrave . | 1 |
until its final minutes this is a perceptive study of two families in crisis -- and of two girls whose friendship is severely tested by bad luck and their own immaturity . | 1 |
though excessively tiresome , the uncertainty principle , as verbally pretentious as the title may be , has its handful of redeeming features , as long as you discount its ability to bore . | 0 |
each of these stories has the potential for touched by an angel simplicity and sappiness , but thirteen conversations about one thing , for all its generosity and optimism , never resorts to easy feel-good sentiments . | 1 |
an admirable , sometimes exceptional film | 1 |
the characters are complex and quirky , but entirely believable as the remarkable ensemble cast brings them to life . | 1 |
has a plot full of twists upon knots . . . and a nonstop parade of mock-tarantino scuzbag types that starts out clever but veers into overkill . | 1 |
an intelligent and deeply felt work about impossible , irrevocable choices and the price of making them . | 1 |
almodovar is an imaginative teacher of emotional intelligence in this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once called 'the gift of tears . ' | 1 |
it 's like an old warner bros . costumer jived with sex -- this could be the movie errol flynn always wanted to make , though bette davis , cast as joan , would have killed him . | 1 |
ultimately , the film amounts to being lectured to by tech-geeks , if you 're up for that sort of thing . | 0 |
[ crystal and de niro ] manage to squeeze out some good laughs but not enough to make this silly con job sing . | 0 |
this is the sort of low-grade dreck that usually goes straight to video -- with a lousy script , inept direction , pathetic acting , poorly dubbed dialogue and murky cinematography , complete with visible boom mikes . | 0 |
the cold turkey would 've been a far better title . | 0 |
[ schweiger is ] talented and terribly charismatic , qualities essential to both movie stars and social anarchists . | 1 |