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dreary expanse | 0 |
of true inspiration | 1 |
is the superficial way it deals with its story | 0 |
director tom dey demonstrated a knack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 debut shanghai noon , but showtime 's uninspired send-up of tv cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks . | 1 |
offers flickering reminders of the ties that bind us | 1 |
two weeks notice has appeal beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy . | 1 |
the narrator and the other characters try to convince us that acting transfigures esther , but she 's never seen speaking on stage ; one feels cheated , and | 0 |
frozen tundra soap opera | 0 |
delivers a monologue that manages to incorporate both the horror and the absurdity of the situation in a well-balanced fashion | 1 |
with bogus profundities | 0 |
enjoyed the love story | 1 |
's a testament to de niro and director michael caton-jones that by movie 's end , we accept the characters and the film , flaws and all . | 1 |
could possibly be more contemptuous of the single female population | 0 |
lonely and needy | 0 |
as part of mr. dong 's continuing exploration of homosexuality in america , family fundamentals is an earnest study in despair . | 1 |
a single iota worse | 0 |
promise | 1 |
( denis ) accomplishes in his chilling , unnerving film | 1 |
's surprisingly bland despite the heavy doses of weird performances and direction | 0 |
about a brainy prep-school kid with a mrs. robinson complex | 1 |
mr. polanski creates images even more haunting than those in mr. spielberg 's 1993 classic . | 1 |
the film 's thoroughly recycled plot | 0 |
this date-night diversion will definitely win some hearts | 1 |
have a good time as it doles out pieces of the famous director 's life | 1 |
huge heart | 1 |
the narrator and the other characters try to convince us that acting transfigures esther , but | 0 |
... a solid , unassuming drama . | 1 |
this time , the hype is quieter , and while the movie is slightly less successful than the first , it 's still a rollicking good time for the most part . | 1 |
warmth to go around , with music and laughter and the love of family | 1 |
funny | 1 |
like i already mentioned ... it 's robert duvall ! | 1 |
an authentically vague , but ultimately purposeless , study in total | 0 |
but the power of these ( subjects ) is obscured by the majority of the film that shows a stationary camera on a subject that could be mistaken for giving a public oration , rather than contributing to a film 's narrative . | 0 |
of you-are-there immediacy | 1 |
have been an eerie thriller | 1 |
's hard to imagine a more generic effort in the genre . | 0 |
improves | 1 |
during which you want to bang your head on the seat in front of you , at its cluelessness , at its idiocy , at its utterly misplaced earnestness | 0 |
a truly , truly bad movie | 0 |
... a series of tales told with the intricate preciseness of the best short story writing . | 1 |
offers a ray of hope to the refugees able to look ahead and resist living in a past | 1 |
bile | 0 |
while it is welcome to see a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion , lan yu never catches dramatic fire . | 0 |
, sets the tone for a summer of good stuff | 1 |
sweetest thing | 1 |
deceptively simple , deeply satisfying | 1 |
comes along only occasionally , one so unconventional | 1 |
crush could be the worst film a man has made about women since valley of the dolls . | 0 |
love the players it brings to the fore for the gifted but no-nonsense human beings they are and for the still-inestimable contribution they have made to our shared history | 1 |
featuring a dangerously seductive performance from the great daniel auteuil , `` sade '' covers the same period as kaufmann 's `` quills '' with more unsettlingly realistic results . | 1 |
is its surreal sense of humor and technological finish | 1 |
why should you buy the movie milk when the tv cow is free ? | 0 |
is a fascinating little tale | 1 |
intentionally introducing your kids to films which will cause loads of irreparable damage that years and years of costly analysis could never fix | 0 |
may really need the company of others | 0 |
hilarity . | 1 |
it 's the image that really tells the tale . | 1 |
it has some special qualities and the soulful gravity of crudup 's anchoring performance . | 1 |
adventurous young talent | 1 |
add up to a satisfying crime drama . | 1 |
recalls the classics of early italian neorealism | 1 |
is the point of emotional and moral departure for protagonist alice | 0 |
compressed into an evanescent , seamless and sumptuous stream of consciousness | 1 |
howard and his co-stars all give committed performances , but they 're often undone by howard 's self-conscious attempts to find a ` literary ' filmmaking style to match his subject | 0 |
the ease with which it integrates thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy | 1 |
add up to little more than a screenful of gamesmanship that 's low on both suspense and payoff . | 0 |
as if solondz had two ideas for two movies , could n't really figure out how to flesh either out | 0 |
the service of a limpid and conventional historical fiction | 0 |
seemingly a vehicle to showcase the canadian 's inane ramblings , stealing harvard is a smorgasbord of soliloquies about nothing delivered by the former mr. drew barrymore . | 0 |
's coherent , well shot , and tartly acted | 1 |
making the proceedings more bizarre than actually amusing | 0 |
match the freshness of the actress-producer and writer | 1 |
downbeat , period-perfect biopic hammers home a heavy-handed moralistic message | 0 |
the movie stirs us as well . | 1 |
full of life and small delights | 1 |
anyone who welcomes a dash of the avant-garde fused with their humor should take pleasure in this crazed , joyous romp of a film . | 1 |
spirit 's visual imagination | 1 |
does n't deliver a great story , | 0 |
so perfect | 1 |
look sophisticated | 1 |
for finding meaning in relationships or work | 1 |
we never feel anything for these characters , and as a result the film is basically just a curiosity | 0 |
loves the members of the upper class almost as much as they love themselves | 0 |
the adventures that happen along the way seem repetitive and designed to fill time , providing no real sense of suspense | 0 |
sitcom material | 0 |
an insane comic undertaking that ultimately coheres into a sane and breathtakingly creative film | 1 |
the suckers | 0 |
written , flatly , by david kendall and directed , barely , by there | 0 |
three hours and with very little story or character | 0 |
that it emerges as another key contribution to the flowering of the south korean cinema | 1 |
returns de palma to his pulpy thrillers of the early '80s | 1 |
, director roger kumble seems to have dumped a whole lot of plot in favor of ... outrageous gags . | 0 |
has never made a more sheerly beautiful film than this unexpectedly moving meditation on love , history , memory , resistance and artistic transcendence . | 1 |
with very little story or character | 0 |
you wonder why enough was n't just a music video rather than a full-length movie . | 0 |
serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that the road to perdition leads to a satisfying destination . | 1 |
from a director beginning to resemble someone 's crazy french grandfather | 0 |
a chilly , remote , emotionally distant piece ... so dull that its tagline should be : | 0 |
grows decidedly flimsier with its many out-sized , out of character and logically porous action set pieces | 0 |
the death of self ... this orgasm ( wo n't be an ) exceedingly memorable one for most people | 0 |