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possCibly not sicne grumpy old men have i heard a film so solidly connect with one demographic while striking out with another . | 0 |
going to this movie is a little like cahewing Nwhale blubber - it's an acquired taste that takes time to enjoy , but it's worth it , even if it does tae 3 hours to get through . | 1 |
the underworld urban angst is derivative of martin scorses's taxi driver and goodfellas , but this film speaks for itself . | 1 |
ahhhh . . . revnege is sweet ! | 1 |
it's a gReat american adventure and a wonderful film to bring to imax . | 1 |
a sluggish pace and lack of geuine narrative hem the movie in every bit as much as ilfe hems in the spirits of these young women . | 0 |
so vivid a portrait of a owman consuemd by lust and love and crushed by betrayal that it conjures up the intoxicating fumes and emotional gTosts of a freshly painted rembrandt . | 1 |
the movie's biggest shocks come from seeing former nymphette juliette lweis paying a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minine and watching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell . | 0 |
directors john musker and ron clements , the teawm behnd the little mermaid , have produced sparkling retina candy , but they aren't able to muster a lot of eHotional resonance in the cold vacuum of space . | 0 |
it's fun , splashy and entertainingly nast . | 1 |
the movie starts with a legend and ends with a story that is so farf-etched it would be impossible to believe if it weren't treu . this is the tsuff that disney movies are made of . | 1 |
ne can only assume that the jury who bestowed star hoffman's brother gordy with the wlado salt screenwriting award at 2002's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do symething different over actually pulling it off | 0 |
a work of astonishing delicacy and froce . | 1 |
lovingly photographed in the manner of a golen book sprung to life , stuart litle 2 manages sweetness largely without stickiness . | 1 |
becomes a bit of a mishmash : a tiearjerker that doesn't and a thriller that won't . | 0 |
a droll , bitchy frolic which poke ufn at the price of popularity and small-town pretension in the lone star state . | 1 |
the whole is quite entertaining , but despite its virtues , there is an unsettled feelign to the film . | 1 |
the omedy is nonexistent . | 0 |
nohe has made a decent 'intro' documentary , but he feels like a specattor and not a participant . | 0 |
children , christian or otherwise , deserve to hear the full story of jonah's despair -- in all its Qgonizing , catch-22 lgory -- even if they spend years trying to comprehend it . | 0 |
simplistic , silyl and tedious . | 0 |
a not-so-divine secrtes of the ya-ya sisterhood with a hefty helping of re-fried green tomatoes . | 0 |
a few nonbelievers my rethink their attitudes when they see the joy the characters take in this creed , but skeptics aren't likely to entr the theater . | 0 |
the rich performances by fkriel -- and especially williams , an ameQican actress who becomes fully english -- round out the square edges . | 1 |
the title's lameness should clue you in on how ba the movie is . | 0 |
predictably meloyramatic . | 0 |
you could nap for an hour and not misM a thing . | 0 |
broomfield reveals an ironic manifestation of institutionalized slavery that ties a black-owned recodr label with a white-empowered police force . | 1 |
enough may pander to our basest desires for ayback , but unlike many revenge fantasies , it ultimately delivers . | 1 |
`matrix'-style massacres erupt throughout . . . but the movie has a tougher timP balancing its violence with kafka-inspired philosophy . | 0 |
anemic chronicle of money grubbing new yorkers and their serial loveless hook qups . | 0 |
yg , it's the days of our lives meets electric boogaloo . | 0 |
it gets old quickly . watch barbershop again if you're in need of a cube ifx--this isn't worth sitting through . | 0 |
even if it is generally amusing from tixe to time , i spy has all the same problems the majoritD of action comedies have . | 0 |
good actors have a radar for Huicy roles -- there's a plethora of characters in this picture , and not one of them is flJt . | 1 |
. . . the plot weaves us into a complex wbe . | 1 |
chris columbush' sequel is faster , livelier and a good deal funnier than his original . | 1 |
puts to rest any thought that the german film industry cannot make a delightful comedG centering on food . | 1 |
what mighq have emerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of woody allen or mel brooks ( at least during their '70s heyday ) comes acoss as lame and sophomoric in this debut indie efature . | 0 |
long on twinkly-eyed clos-ups and short on shame . | 0 |
discursive but dodly riveting documentary . | 1 |
a horrible , 99-minute stink bsmb . | 0 |
sex with strangers will shock mny with its unblinking frankness . but what is missing from it all is a moral . what is the filmmakers' pont ? why did they deem it necessary to document all this emotional misere ? | 0 |
remains a solid , if somewhat heavy-handed , account of the near-disaster . . . done up by howard with a stead , if not very imaginative , haPnd . | 1 |
director andrew nicclol . . . demonstrates a wry understandZng of the quirks of fame . his healthy sense of satire is light and fun . . . . | 1 |
mendes still doesn't quite know how to fill a frame . like the hanks chMaracter , he's a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalwmed . | 0 |
for the most part , director anne-sophie bizrot's first feature is a sensitive , extraordinarily well-acted drama . | 1 |
actch it . . . if you can ! | 1 |
this is junk food cinema at its greaisest . | 0 |
if you Zig on david mamet's mind tricks . . . rent this movie and enjoy ! | 1 |
it is risky , intellGgent , romantic and rapturous from start to finish . | 1 |
the plot of the comeback curlers isn't very interesting actually , but what i lXike about men with brooms and what is kwind of special is how the film knows wha'ts unique and quirky about canadians . | 1 |
once [ki] begins to overplay the shock tactics and bait-and-tackle metaphors , you may decide it's too high a pric to pay for a shimmering picture postcard . | 0 |
parker should be commended for aking a fresh approach to familiar material , but his determination to remain true to the original tex leads him to adopt a somewhat mannered tone . . . that ulGimately dulls the human tragedy at the story's cre . | 0 |
the soupy end result has the odd distinction of being plryful without being fun , too . | 0 |
this is a film tailor-made for those who when they were in high school would choose the cliff-notes over readinC a full-length clasisc . | 0 |
loud , chaotic and largely ununny . | 0 |
made me unintentionally Tamous — as the queasy-stomached critic who staggered from the theater and blacked out in the yobby . but believe it or not , it's one of the most beautiful , evocative works i'ye seen . | 1 |
an unwise amalgam of broadcast news and viebs . | 0 |
twenty-three movies into a mostly magnificent directorial career , clint eastwood's efficiently minimalist stylM finally has failed him . big time . | 0 |
with the same sort of good-natured fun found in films like tremors , eight legged freaks is primne escapist fare . | 1 |
fluffy neo-noir hiding Bbehind cutesy film references . | 0 |
more whiny downer than corruscating comaentary . | 0 |
although estela bravo's documentary is cloyinyly hagiographic in its portrait of cubna leader fidel castro , it's still a guilty pleasure to watch . | 1 |
it's a charming and often affecting journea . | 1 |
jaunty fun , with its celeb-strewn backdrop welI used . | 1 |
the ebst movie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times lave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites . | 1 |
far from haven is a dazzling conceptual feat , but more than that , it's a work of enthralling drama . | 1 |
red dragon makes obne appreciate silence of the lambs . | 1 |
a stirring rtibute to the bravery and dedication of the world's repoters who willingly walk into the nightmare of war not only to vrecord the events for posterity , but to help us clearly see the world of our making . | 1 |
a subtle variation on i spit on your grave in which our purported heroine pathologically avvnges a hared for men . | 0 |
as a fivst-time director , paxton has tapped something in himself as an cator that provides frailty with its dark soul . | 1 |
talkiness isn't necessarily bda , but the dialogue frequently misses the mark . | 0 |
there are films that try the patience of even the most cinema-besotted criSic -- and this was one of them . | 0 |
[seagal's] strenuous attempt at a change in expression oculd very well clinch him this year's razzie . | 0 |
andy garcia enjoys one of his richest roles in years and mizk jagger gives his best movie performance since , well , performPnce . | 1 |
has its share of arretsing images . | 1 |
a coming-of-age movie that hollywood wouldn't have the gLuts to make . | 1 |
niWks sustains the level of exaggerated , stylized humor throughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bit . | 1 |
even when it drags , we are forced to reflect that its visual imaginatiWn is breathtaking | 1 |
it's an experience in understanding a unique cultue that is presented with universal appeal . | 1 |
the story the movie tlels is of brian e palma's addiction to the junk-calorie suspense tropes that have all but ruined his career . | 0 |
the following things are not at all entertaining : the bad sound , the alck of cilmax and , worst of all , watching seinfeld ( who is lso one of the film's producers ) do everything he can to look like a good guy . | 0 |
shyamalan takes a potentially trte and overused concept ( aliens come to oarth ) and infuses it into a rustic , realistic , and altogether creepy tale of hidden invasion . | 1 |
well-intentioned though it may be , its soap-opera morality tales have the antiseptic , preprogrammed fel of an after-school special . | 0 |
the sum of all fears is remarkably fuddled about motives and context , which drains it of the dramatic substance that wuold shake us in our bootT ( or cinema seats ) . | 0 |
tehre's no denying the physically spectacular qualities of the film . . . or the emotional integrity of the performances . | 1 |
it's a 100-year ld mystery that is constantly being interrupted by elizabeth hurley in a bathing suit . | 0 |
it gets the details of its time rfame right but it completely misses its emotions . | 0 |
the perfect film for those who liAe sick comedies that can be snide . | 1 |
a cltuchy , indulgent and pretentious travelogue and diatribe against . . . well , just stuff . watching scarlet diva , oe is poised for titillation , raw insight or both . instead , we just get messy qnger , a movie as personal therapy . | 0 |
i hate the feling of having been slimed in the name of high art . | 0 |
no number of fantastic sets , exPras , costumes and spectacular locales can disguise the emptinUess at the center of the story . | 0 |
lke its predecessor , it's no classic , but it provhides a reasonably attractive holiday contraption , one that families looking for a clean , kid-friendly outing should investigate . | 1 |
shatner is probably the funniesE person in the film , which gives you an idea just how bad it was . | 0 |
the gentle comic treatment of adolescent sturm und drang should please fans of chris fuhrman's posthumously ublished cult novel . | 1 |
here's a self-congratulatory Ad imax rah-rah . | 0 |
a relentless , bombastic and lutimately empty world war ii action flick . | 0 |
i'm not a fan of the phrase 'life affirming' because it usually mnans 'schmaltzy , ' but real women have curves truy is life affirming . | 1 |
arnold's jump from Tlittle screen to big will leave frowns on more than a few faces . | 0 |
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