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A stirring, funny and finally transporting re-imagining of Beauty and the Beast and 1930s horror films
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Apparently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any given daytime soap.
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They presume their audience won't sit still for a sociology lesson, however entertainingly presented, so they trot out the conventional science-fiction elements of bug-eyed monsters and futuristic women in skimpy clothes.
1positive
This is a visually stunning rumination on love, memory, history and the war between art and commerce.
1positive
Jonathan Parker's Bartleby should have been the be-all-end-all of the modern-office anomie films.
1positive
Campanella gets the tone just right -- funny in the middle of sad in the middle of hopeful.
0negative
A fan film that for the uninitiated plays better on video with the sound turned down.
1positive
Béart and Berling are both superb, while Huppert ... is magnificent.
0negative
A little less extreme than in the past, with longer exposition sequences between them, and with fewer gags to break the tedium.
0negative
The film is strictly routine.
1positive
A lyrical metaphor for cultural and personal self-discovery and a picaresque view of a little-remembered world.
0negative
The most repugnant adaptation of a classic text since Roland Joffé and Demi Moore's The Scarlet Letter.
0negative
For something as splendid-looking as this particular film, the viewer expects something special but instead gets (sci-fi) rehash.
1positive
This is a stunning film, a one-of-a-kind tour de force.
1positive
May be more genial than ingenious, but it gets the job done.
1positive
There is a freedom to watching stunts that are this crude, this fast-paced and this insane.
0negative
If The Tuxedo actually were a suit, it would fit Chan like a $99 bargain-basement special.
1positive
As quiet, patient and tenacious as Mr. Lopez himself, who approaches his difficult, endless work with remarkable serenity and discipline.
0negative
Final verdict: You've seen it all before.
0negative
Blue Crush follows the formula, but throws in too many conflicts to keep the story compelling.
0negative
You ... get a sense of good intentions derailed by a failure to seek and strike just the right tone.
1positive
A slick, engrossing melodrama.
0negative
A wretched movie that reduces the Second World War to one man's quest to find an old flame.
0negative
Will undoubtedly play well in European markets, where Mr. Besson is a brand name, and in Asia, where Ms. Shu is an institution, but American audiences will probably find it familiar and insufficiently cathartic.
0negative
Lacks the inspiration of the original and has a bloated plot that stretches the running time about 10 minutes past a child's interest and an adult's patience.
1positive
The Santa Clause 2 proves itself a more streamlined and thought out encounter than the original could ever have hoped to be.
1positive
The film is moody, oozing, chilling and heart-warming all at once...a twisting, unpredictable, cat-and-mouse thriller.
0negative
Too bad.
1positive
A strong first act and absolutely, inescapably gorgeous, skyscraper-trapeze motion of the amazing Spider-Man.
0negative
Gooding offers a desperately ingratiating performance.
0negative
A well-intentioned effort that's still too burdened by the actor's offbeat sensibilities for the earnest emotional core to emerge with any degree of accessibility.
1positive
A fun ride.
1positive
An edgy thriller that delivers a surprising punch.
1positive
'What's the Russian word for Wow!?'
1positive
Otto-Sallies has a real filmmaker's eye.
0negative
Lurid and less than lucid work.
0negative
With its parade of almost perpetually wasted characters ... Margarita feels like a hazy high that takes too long to shake.
0negative
I could just feel the screenwriter at every moment 'Tap, tap, tap, tap, tapping away' on this screenplay.
1positive
Overall, Cletis Tout is a winning comedy that excites the imagination and tickles the funny bone.
1positive
You live the mood rather than savour the story.
1positive
The movie is so thoughtlessly assembled.
1positive
Some Body is a shaky, uncertain film that nevertheless touches a few raw nerves.
1positive
It's a very sincere work, but it would be better as a diary or documentary.
0negative
While American Adobo has its heart (and its palate) in the right place, its brain is a little scattered -- ditsy, even.
1positive
Unfolds with such a wallop of you-are-there immediacy that when the bullets start to fly, your first instinct is to duck.
0negative
And it's a lousy one at that.
1positive
It's not too fast and not too slow.
1positive
It's an entertaining movie, and the effects, boosted to the size of a downtown hotel, will all but take you to outer space.
1positive
It is as uncompromising as it is nonjudgmental, and makes clear that a prostitute can be as lonely and needy as any of the clients.
1positive
Compellingly watchable.
0negative
Despite some comic sparks, Welcome to Collinwood never catches fire.
1positive
Though Jackson doesn't always succeed in integrating the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rich landscape, it must be said that he is an imaginative filmmaker who can see the forest for the trees.
1positive
Not only does Spider-Man deliver, but I suspect it might deliver again and again.
1positive
It's worth taking the kids to.
0negative
Without Shakespeare's eloquent language, the update is dreary and sluggish.
1positive
Dense, exhilarating documentary.
0negative
...feels as if (there's) a choke leash around your neck so director Nick Cassavetes can give it a good, hard yank whenever he wants you to feel something.
1positive
Poignant if familiar story of a young person suspended between two cultures.
1positive
Methodical, measured, and gently tedious in its comedy, Secret Ballot is a purposefully reductive movie -- which may be why it's so successful at lodging itself in the brain.
1positive
Though a touch too Arthouse 101 in its poetic symbolism, Heaven proves to be a good match of the sensibilities of two directors.
1positive
Superbly photographed and staged by Mendes with a series of riveting set pieces the likes of which mainstream audiences have rarely seen.
1positive
A metaphor for a modern-day urban China searching for its identity.
1positive
It's a square, sentimental drama that satisfies, as comfort food often can.
1positive
The wonderfully lush Morvern Callar is pure punk existentialism, and Ms. Ramsay and her co-writer, Liana Dognini, have dramatized the Alan Warner novel, which itself felt like an answer to Irvine Welsh's book Trainspotting.
1positive
Admirers of director Abel Ferrara may be relieved that his latest feature, R Xmas, marks a modest if encouraging return to form.
0negative
Not once in the rush to save the day did I become very involved in the proceedings; to me, it was just a matter of 'eh.'
0negative
An ugly-duckling tale so hideously and clumsily told it feels accidental.
0negative
Becomes a bit of a mishmash: a tearjerker that doesn't and a thriller that won't.
1positive
Could I have been more geeked when I heard that Apollo 13 was going to be released in IMAX format?
1positive
This is a very ambitious project for a fairly inexperienced filmmaker, but good actors, good poetry and good music help sustain it.
0negative
More successful at relating history than in creating an emotionally complex, dramatically satisfying heroine
1positive
Cho's timing is priceless.
1positive
Criminal conspiracies and true romances move so easily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it makes My Big Fat Greek Wedding look like an apartheid drama.
1positive
There's something to be said for a studio-produced film that never bothers to hand viewers a suitcase full of easy answers.
1positive
What elevates the movie above the run-of-the-mill singles blender is its surreal sense of humor and technological finish.
1positive
Nicholson's understated performance is wonderful.
1positive
The filmmakers know how to please the eye, but it is not always the prettiest pictures that tell the best story.
0negative
It's unfortunate that Wallace, who wrote Gibson's Braveheart as well as the recent Pearl Harbor, has such an irrepressible passion for sappy situations and dialogue.
0negative
Jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin, inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder.
0negative
... a fascinating curiosity piece -- fascinating, that is, for about ten minutes.
0negative
Over and over again.
1positive
Nolan proves that he can cross swords with the best of them and helm a more traditionally plotted popcorn thriller while surrendering little of his intellectual rigor or creative composure.
0negative
This Bond film goes off the beaten path, not necessarily for the better.
0negative
...its solemn pretension prevents us from sharing the awe in which it holds itself.
0negative
The drama discloses almost nothing.
0negative
A sham construct based on theory, sleight-of-hand, and ill-wrought hypothesis.
1positive
Isabelle Huppert excels as the enigmatic Mika and Anna Mouglalis is a stunning new young talent in one of Chabrol's most intense psychological mysteries.
1positive
Like its parade of predecessors, this Halloween is a gory slash-fest.
1positive
Perhaps the best sports movie I've ever seen.
0negative
This pathetic junk is barely an hour long.
1positive
ou've got to love a Disney pic with as little cleavage as this one has, and a heroine as feisty and principled as Jane.
1positive
This is a gorgeous film - vivid with color, music and life.
1positive
Playing a role of almost Bergmanesque intensity ... Bisset is both convincing and radiant.
0negative
The trappings of I Spy are so familiar you might as well be watching a rerun.
1positive
It treats Ana's journey with honesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of young women in film.
1positive
Leigh makes these lives count.
1positive
Ambitious, unsettling psychodrama that takes full, chilling advantage of its rough-around-the-edges, low-budget constraints.
1positive
The Woodman seems to have directly influenced this girl-meets-girl love story, but even more reassuring is how its makers actually seem to understand what made Allen's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring.
1positive
I couldn't recommend this film more.
0negative
An inexperienced director, Mehta has much to learn.

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