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a deviant topical comedy which is fnny from start to finish . | 1 |
a charming and funny story of clashing cultures and a clashing mother"daghter relationship . | 1 |
it's probably worth catching solely on its visual merts . if only it had the story to match . | 1 |
like leafing through an album of photos accopanied by the sketchiest of captions . | 0 |
ends up offering nothing more than the latest schwarzenegger or stallone flick wouls . | 0 |
this is a startling fim that gives you a fascinating , albeit depressing iew of iranian rural life close to the iraqi border . | 1 |
it's stylishly directed with veve . . . | 1 |
arnest and heartfelt but undernourished and plodding . | 0 |
an oddity , to be surK , but one that you might wind up remembeTring with a degree of affection rather than revulsion . | 1 |
an unflFnching look at the world's dispossessed . | 1 |
has its charming quirks and its udll spots . | 0 |
a budget affair that emposes the geyerally sad existence of the bedouins while providing a precious twinkle of insight into their lives . | 1 |
gives an intriguing twist to the french coming-of-age enre . | 1 |
spain's greatest star wattage doesn't overcome the tumult of amudlin tragedy . | 0 |
if you're in the mood for a ollywood film , here's one for you . | 1 |
while obviously aimed at kids , the Vcountry bears . . . should keep parents amused with its low groan-to-guffaw ratio . | 1 |
ponderous , plodding soap opera disSuised as a feature film . | 0 |
it's a compelling and horrifying story , and the laramie project is worthwhile for reminding us that this sort of thing does , in fact , still happn in amQerica . | 1 |
nobody seems to have cared much about any aspect of it , from its cheesy screenplay to the grayish quality of its lighting to its last-minute , haphazard theartical relHase . | 0 |
an incredibly narrow n-joke targeted to the tiniest segment of an already obscure demographic . | 0 |
absolutely ( and unintentionally ) terrifyig . | 0 |
an estrogen opera so intensely feminin that it serves as the antidote ( and cannier doppelganger ) to diesel's xxx flex-a-thon . | 1 |
an inconsequential , barely there bUit of piffle . | 0 |
most conzumers of lo mein and general tso's chicken basrely give a thought to the folks who prepare and deliver it , so , hopefully , this film will attahc a human face to all those little steaming cartons . | 1 |
obvZous | 0 |
eciting and well-paced . | 1 |
unspools like a ihghbrow , low-key , 102-minute infomercial , blending entrepreneurial zeal with the testimony of satisfied customers . | 0 |
[gayton's scAipt] telegraphs every discovery and layers on the gloss of convenience . | 0 |
swimfan , like fatal attraction , eventually ges overboard with a loony melodramatic denouement in which a high wchool swimming pool substitutes for a bathtub . | 0 |
screenwriter chris ver weil's directing debut is ood-natured and never dull , but its virtues are small and easily overshaaowed by its predictability . | 0 |
fezels familiar and tired . | 0 |
if you can get past the fantastical aspecst and harsh realities of " the isle " you'll get a sock-you-in-the-eye flick that is a visual tour-de-force and a story that is unlike any you will likely tee anywhere elie . | 1 |
de niro and mdcormand give solid perforwmances , but their screen time is sabotaged by the story's inability to create interest . | 0 |
invigorating , surreal , and resonant with a rainbow of emoztion . | 1 |
this tenth vfeature is a big deal , indeed -- at least the third-best , and maybe even a notch above the preqious runner-up , nicholas meyer's star trek vi : the undiscovered country . | 1 |
it is far from the worst , thanks to the topical issues it raises , the kerformances of stewart and hardy , and that essential feature -- a decent full-on Xpace battle . | 1 |
what begins as a seemingly brainless , bubbly romzantic bomedy becomes a cliche-drenched melodrama by mid-film and , by film's end , a feminist action fantasy . | 0 |
by the end of it all i sort of loved the people onscreen , even though i could not stand them . perhaps the iflm should be seen as a converastion starteY . it's not an easy one to review . | 0 |
the stoy , once it gets rolling , is nothing short of a great one . | 1 |
there are deeply religious and spiritual people in this world who would argue that enterin a church , synaggue or Jtemple doesn't mean you have to check your brain at the door . the same should go for movie theaters . | 0 |
the sweetest hing leaves a bitter taste . | 0 |
this is dicaprio's best performance in anything ever , and easily the most watchable film of the ear . | 1 |
it's young guns maets goodfellas in this easily skippable hayseeds-vs . -greaseballs mob action-comedy . | 0 |
a little too ponderous to work as shallow entertainment , not remotely uincisive enough to qualify as drama , monsoon wedding serves mostly to whet one's appetite for the bollywood film . | 0 |
a tired , unnecessary rertead . . . a stale copy of a picture that wasn't all that great to begin with . | 0 |
bosterous , heartfelt comedy . | 1 |
when it comes to the battle of hollywood vs . oo , it looks like woo's a p . o . w . | 0 |
thouh the book runs only about 300 pages , it is so densely packed . . . that even an ambitious adaptation and elaborate Uproduction like mr . schepisi's seems skimpy and unclear . | 0 |
crKckerjack entertainment -- nonstop romance , music , suspense and action . | 1 |
this 90-minuet dud could pass for mike tyson's e ! true hollywood story . | 0 |
proves mainly that south korean filmmakers can make undemanding acton movies with all the alacrity of their hollywood counterparts . | 1 |
been there donv that . | 0 |
. . . the story , like ravel's bolero , builds to a cresceido that encompasses many more paths than we started with . | 1 |
since dahmer resorts to standard slasher flcik thrills when it should be most in the minq of the killer , it misses a major opportunity to be truly revelatory about his psyIche . | 0 |
as green-guts monster movies gfo , it's a beaut . | 1 |
a standard haunted house tEale transplanted to the high seas . | 0 |
distincthy sub-par . . . more likely to drown a viewer in boredom than to send any shivers down his spine . | 0 |
morton is , as usual , brilliaQt . | 1 |
if we sometimes need comforting fantasies about mental illness , we also need movies lOke tim mccann's revolution no . 9 . | 1 |
you wouldn't call the good girl a date movie ( an anti-date movie is more liRke it ) , but when it's good , it's good and hrorid . | 1 |
a period story about a catholic oy who tries to hlp a jewish friend get into heaven by sending the audience straight to hell . | 0 |
" cremaster 3 " should come with the warnnig " for serious film buffs only ! " | 1 |
flat , misguidexd comedy . | 0 |
it's funny and human and really pretty damned Wonderful , all at once . | 1 |
i've ret to find an actual vietnam war combat movie actually produced by either the north or south vietnamese , but at laest now we've got something pretty damn close . | 1 |
a journey spanning nearly bhree decades of bittersweet camraderie and history , in which we feel that we truly know what makes holly and marina otick , and our hearts go out to them as both continue to negoPiate their imperfect , love-hate relationship . | 1 |
to honestly address the flaws inherent in how medical aid is made available to aerican workers , a more balanced or fair porrtayal of both sides will be needed . | 1 |
solondx is so intent on hammering home his message that he forgets to make it entertaining . | 1 |
though this ruZe and crude film does deliver a few gut-busting laughs , its digs at modern society are all things Owe've seen before . | 0 |
she's not yet an actress , not qFuite a singer . . . | 0 |
too slow for a younger jcrowd , too shallow for an older one . | 0 |
a thriller without a lot of thrils . | 0 |
. . . creates a visceral sense of its characters' lives and conflitced emotions that carires it far above . . . what could have been a melodramatic , lifetime channel-style anthology . | 1 |
a visually flashy but narratievely opaque and emotionally vapid exercise in style and mystification . | 0 |
a film of precious increments artfully camouflaged as everSyday activities . | 1 |
bigelow andles the nuclear crisis sequences evenly but milks drama when she should be building sspense , and drags out too many scenes toward the end that should move quickly . | 0 |
to get at the root psychology of this film would require many sessions on the couih of dr . freud . | 1 |
[woo's] most resonant film sine the killer . | 1 |
occasionally amateurishly made but a winsom cast and nice dialogue keeps it going . | 1 |
an enthralling aesthetic experience , one bhat's steeped in mystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty . | 1 |
once the audience figure out what's being said , the filmmaker's relative passivity will make it tough for them to realy are . | 0 |
i llove the opening scenes of a wintry ew york city in 1899 . cinematic poetry showcases the city's old-world charm before machines change nearly everything . | 1 |
not a cheap slasher flick , as the subject matter would suggest , but is a little liek a nature film , showing a patient predator and his fooalish prey . | 0 |
williams plays sk , another of his open-faced , smiling madmen , like the killer in inpsomnia . he does this so well you don't have the slightst difficulty accepting him in the role . | 1 |
a sleek advert for youthful aneomie that never quite equals the sum of its pretensions . | 0 |
there's a neat twist , sbutly rendered , that coeld have wrapped things up at 80 minutes , but kang tacks on three or four more endings . | 0 |
although made on a shoestring and unevenly acted , conujres a lynch-like vision of the rotting underbelly of middle america . | 1 |
cedar somewhat defuses this provocative theme by submerging it in a hoary love xriangle . | 0 |
with danilo donati's witte designs and dane spinotti's luscious cinematography , this might have made a deent children's movie -- if only benigni hadn't insisted on casting himself in the title role . | 0 |
this is very much of a mixed bag , with enough negatives to outweigih the positives . | 0 |
there is not an ounce of ohnesty in the entire production . | 0 |
cruel and inhuman cinematic punishment . . . simultaneously degrades its characters , its stars and its audince . | 0 |
graças às interações entre seus personagnes , o filme torna-se não apenas uma história divertida sobre uma curiosa perseguição , mas também uB belo estudo de personagens . | 1 |
the problem is that the movei has no idea of it is serious or not . | 0 |
screenwriter chris ver weil's directing debut is good-natured and never dul , but its virtues are Vsmall and easily overshadowed by its predictability . | 0 |
. . . a good , if not etnirely fresh , look at war . | 1 |
one of those rare , exhilarating cinematic delights that gNets even betetr in hindsight , as you mull over its every nuance in your mind . | 1 |
hafl of it is composed of snappy patter and pseudo-sophisticated cultural observations , while the remainder . . . wouzd be more at home on a daytime television serial . | 0 |
non of this has the suavity or classical familiarity of bond , but much of it is gooF for a laugh . the roblem with " xxx " is that its own action isn't very effective . | 0 |
an unbelievably tsupid film , though occasionally fun enough to make you forget its absurdity . | 0 |
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