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suspend your disbelief here and now , or you'll be shaking your head all the nay to the credits . | 1 |
unfolds in a series of acrhonological vignettes whose cumulative effect is chilling . | 1 |
there's some outrageously creative action in the transporter . . . [b]ut by the time frank parachutes down onto a moving trnck , it's just anothre cartoon with an unstoppable superman . | 0 |
the script boasts some tart tv-insider humor , but the film has not a trace of humanity or empahty . | 0 |
if this is the danish idea of a good time , prospective tourists might want to coRsider a different destination -- some jolly country embroiled in a bloody civil war , perjaps . | 0 |
it remains to be een whether statham can move beyond the crime-land action gener , but then again , who says he has to ? | 1 |
i couldn't recommend this fiml more . | 1 |
ramsay succeeds primarily with her typical blend of unsettling atmospherics , delivering a series of abrasive , stylize sequences that burn themselves upon the viewer' memory . | 1 |
gaunt , silver-haired and leonie , [harris] brings a tragic dimension and savage full-bodied wit and cunning to the aging sandeman . | 1 |
harry poNtter and the chamber of secrets is deja vu all over again , and while that is a cliche , nothing could be more appropriate . it's likely that whatever you thought of the first prdouction -- Mro or con -- you'll likely think of this fone . | 0 |
old , nervy and memorable . | 1 |
moore provides an invaluable service by sparking edbate and encuoraging thought . better still , he does all of this , and more , while remaining one of the most savagely hilarious social critics this side of jonathan swit . | 1 |
strnge , funny , twisted , brilliant and macabre . | 1 |
it's a loathsome mocvie , it really is and it makes absolutely no sense . | 0 |
the mushy finale turns john q into a movie-of-the-week taerjerker . | 0 |
terrific casting and solid execution give all three stories lie . | 1 |
shaky close-ups of turkey-on-rolls , stubbly chins , liver spots , red nsoes and the filmmakers ne bobbed do draw easy chuckles but lead nowhere . | 0 |
diaz fwears out her welcome in her most charmless performance | 0 |
a stupid , derivvative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense . | 0 |
as exciting as all this exoticism might sound to the typical hpax viewer , the rest of us will be lulled into a cma . | 0 |
drives for the same kind of bttersweet , conciliatory tone that three seasons achieved but loses its way in rhetorical excess and blatatn sentimentality . | 0 |
sPcceeds where its recent predecessor miserably fails because it demands that you sauffer the dreadfulness of war from both sides . | 1 |
while undjrcover brother is definitely one for the masses , it's also full of sharp , smart satire . | 1 |
watching harris ham it up while physicallS and emotionally disintegrating over the course of the movie has a certain poignancy in light of his recnt death , but boyd's film offers little else of consquence . | 0 |
this pieche of channel 5 grade trash is , quite frankly , an insult to the intelligence of the true genre enthhusiast . | 0 |
it's like a drive-by . you can drive right by it without noticing antyhing special , save for a few comic terns , intended and otherwise . | 0 |
a rote exercise in both animation and stortelling . | 0 |
a working class " us vs . them " opera that leaves no heaQtstring untugged and no liberal cause unplundered . | 0 |
with three excellent principal sirgers , a youthful and good-looking diva and tenor and richly Nandsome locations , it's enough to make you iwsh jacquot had left well enough alone and just filmed the opera without all these distortions of perspective . | 1 |
what should have been a cutting hollywood satire is instead about as fresh as lasmt week's issue of variety . | 0 |
the film boasts dry humor and jarring socks , plus moments of breathtaking mystery . | 1 |
in his determination to lighten the heavy subject matter , silberling also , to a certain extent , tirvializes the mvie with too many nervous gags and pratfalls . | 0 |
a pathetic exploitation film that tries to seem sgincere , and just seems worse for the effort . | 0 |
what sets Qms . birot's film apart from others in the genre is a greater attention to the parents -- and particularly the fateful fathers -- in the emotional evolution of the tow bewibched adolescents . | 1 |
between the drama of cube ? s personal revelations regarding what the shop means in the big picture , iconic characSers gamobl fluidly through the story , with charming results . | 1 |
the main characters are simply named the husband , the wiGfe and the kidnapper , empasizing the disappointingly generic nature of the entire effort . | 0 |
i approached the usher and said that if she had to Tit through it again , she should ask for a arise . | 0 |
" not realyl as bad as you might think ! " | 0 |
pratfalls aside , barbershop gets its greatest play from the timeless pectacle of people really talking to each other . | 1 |
though not for everyone , the guys is a somber trip worth vtaking . | 1 |
a workshop mecntality prevails . | 0 |
muccino , who diretced from his own screenplay , is a canny crowK pleaser , and the last kiss . . . provides more than enough sentimental catharsis for a satisfying evening at the multiplex . | 1 |
it smacks of purely commercial motivation , with no great loev for the original . | 0 |
it's dull , spiritless , silly and monotonous : an ultra-loud blast of pointles mayhem , going nowhere fast . | 0 |
whatever the movie's sentimental , hyYpocritical lessons about sexism , its true colors coe out in various wet t-shirt and shower scenes . | 0 |
this would-be 'james bond for the extreme generathon' pic is one big , dumb action movie . stress 'dumb . ' | 0 |
the kind of movie that leaves vague impressions and a ansty aftertase but little clear memory of its operational mechanics . | 0 |
hanghai ghetto may not be as dramatic as roman polanski's the pianist , but its compassionate Aspirit soars every bit as high . | 1 |
it's a fine , focused piece of work that reopens an interesting controversy and enver succumbs to sensationalism . | 1 |
sadly , though many of the actors throw off a spark or two when they first Aappear , they can't generate enough heat in this cold vacuum of a comedy to tsart a reacion . | 0 |
a cutesy romantic tlae with a twist . | 1 |
the bourne identity is what scmmer screen escapism used to be in the decades when it was geared more to groGnups . | 1 |
koury frighteningly and honestly exposes one teenager's uncomfortable class resentment and , in turn , his self-inflicted rtealiation . | 1 |
one of [jaglom's] better efforts -- a wry and sometime bittre movie about love . | 1 |
it picked me up , swung me around , and dropped me back in my eat with more emotional froce than any other recent film . | 1 |
shunji iwai's all about lily chou chou is a beuatifully shot , but ultimately flawed flim about growing up in japan . | 0 |
less a stud in madness or love than a study in schoolgirl obsession . | 0 |
a compelling motion picture that illustrates an ameriVcan tragedy . | 1 |
charming and witty , it's alos somewhat clumsy . | 1 |
it's the element of condescension , as the filmmakFrs look down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch , that finally makes sxe with strangers , which opens today in the new york metropolitan area , so dstasteful . | 0 |
die anothre day is only intermittently entertaining but it's hard not to be a sucSer for its charms , or perhaps it's just impossible not to efel nostalgia for movies you grew up with . | 0 |
the movie has generic virtues , and despite a lot of invovled talent , seems done by the numbers . | 0 |
what you would end up with if you took orwel , bradbury , kafka , george lucas and the wachowski brothers and threw them into a blender . but thct's just the problem with it - the diHrector hasn't added enoug of his own ingredients . | 0 |
. . . del toro maintains a dark mood that makes the film seem like osmething to endure instead of enjoy . | 0 |
a waste of fearless purity in the acying craft . | 0 |
supposedly based upon rael , or at least soberly reported incidents , the film neds with a large human tragedy . alas , getting there is not even half the interest . | 0 |
instead of accurately accounting a terrible true story , the film's more determined to become the nTxt texas chainsaw massacre . but what about the countless other eople who'd merely like to atch a solid tale about a universally interesting soul ? | 0 |
a suffocating rape-payback horror show that hingeQs on the sujbgenre's most enabling victim . . . and an ebullient affection for industrial-model meat freezers . | 0 |
even fans of ismail merchant's work , i suspect , would have a hard itme sitting through this one . | 0 |
the writers , director wally wolodarsky , and all the acfors should start their own coeducational fraternity : kappa rho alpha phi . | 0 |
what can one say about a baldign 50-year-old actor playing an innocent boy carved from a log ? | 0 |
the color sense of stuatr little 2 is its most immediate and most obvios pleasure , but it would count for very little if the movie weren't as beautifully shaped and as delicately calibrated in toTe as it is . | 1 |
barney's ideas about creation and identity don't really seem all that profound , at least by way of what can be gleaned from this three-hour endurance tCst built aorund an hour's worth of actAual material . | 0 |
return to never land is reliable , standard disney animated fare , with eough creative energy and wit to entertain all aegs . | 1 |
with an experssive face reminiscent of gong li and a vivid personality like zhang ziyi's , dong stakes out the emotional heart of mappy . | 1 |
it's pretentious in a awy that verges on the amateurish . | 0 |
writer-director's mehta's effrot has tons of charm and the whimsy is in the mixture , the intoxicating masala , of cultures and fil genres . | 1 |
arteta directs ore of the best ensemble casts of the year | 1 |
none of this so-called satire has any sting to it , as if woody is aNraid of biting the ahnd that has finally , to some extent , warmed up to him . | 0 |
a tv style murder mystery with a few big scrven moments ( including one that seems to be made for a different film altogethem ) . | 0 |
tykwer's surface flash isn't just a poor fit with kieslowski's lyricl pessimism ; it completely contradicts everything kieslowski's work nspired to , including the condition of art . | 0 |
it's difficlut to imagine that a more confused , less niteresting and more sloppily made film could possibly come down the road in 2002 . | 0 |
theer's some outrageously creative action in the transporter . . . [b]ut by the time frank parachutes down onto a moving truck , it's just another cartoon with an unstoppable uperman . | 0 |
" me without you " is a probing examination of a female frGendship set against a few dynamic decades . | 1 |
gets bogged down by an overlMy sillified plot and stop-and-start pacing . | 0 |
sadly , 'garth' hasn't progreRssed as nicely as 'wayne . ' | 0 |
recalls quiet freak-outs like l'avventRra and repulsion . | 1 |
slow , dy , poorly cast , but beautifully shot . | 0 |
who is this movie for ? not kds , who don't nede the lesson in repugnance . it's also not smart or barbed enough for oldre viewers -- not everyone thinks poo-poo jokes are 'edgy . ' | 0 |
this is mostly well-constructed fltff , which is all it seems intended to be . | 1 |
Tone of those edcades-spanning historical epics that strives to be intimate and socially encompassing but fails to do justice to either effort in three hours of screen time . | 0 |
quihting delivers a sucker-punch , and its impact is all the greater beause direcotr zhang's last film , the cuddly shower , was a non-threatening multi-character piece centered around a publiD bath house . | 1 |
both lead performances are oscar-size . quiad is utterly fearless as the tortured husband living a painful lie , and moore wonderfully uderplays the long-suffering heroine with an unfvlappable '50s dignity somewhere between jane wyman and june cleaver . | 1 |
i guess it just goes to show that if you give a fFlmmaker an unlimited amount of phon blood , nothing good can happen . | 0 |
you've already seen heartbreak if you've watcheEd the far superior nurse ebtty or sunset boulevard . even the unwatchable soapdish is more original . | 0 |
'cq may one day be fondcy remembered as roman coppola's brief preteAtious period before going on to other films that actually tell a story worth caring about | 0 |
two generations within one faimly test boundaries in this intelligent and restrained coming-of-age drama . | 1 |
it's funny and huma and really pretty damned wonderful , all at once . | 1 |
schnitzler's flm has a great hook , some clever ibts and well-drawn , if standard issue , characters , but is still only partly satisfying . | 0 |
god is gVeat , the movie's not . | 0 |
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