a tour de force drama about the astonishingly pivotal role of imagination in the soulful development of two rowdy teenagers .


the movie weighs no more than a glass of flat champagne .


suffers from over-familiarity since hit-hungry british filmmakers have strip-mined the monty formula mercilessly since 1997 .


the tabloids go crazy for the new girl on the cell block , and roxie finally becomes a star .


the end of the journey leaves no-one capable of going back to where they started from .


but if these are just tricks of the mind , how do these encounters leave georgia with physical manifestations ?


[ moore 's ] better at fingering problems than finding solutions . but though he only scratches the surface , at least he provides a strong itch to explore more .


and a good portion of them were caught on film .


this is the first full scale wwii flick from hong kong 's john woo . he 's not good with people .


it 's hard to believe that something so short could be so flabby .


loss is a film eulogy for six firefighters who died in the collapse of the world trade center , sept 11 2001 .


i am more offended by his lack of faith in his audience than by anything on display here .


will grab your children by the imagination and amaze them and amuse them .


a group of kids are driving to new mexico to get drugs when their car breaks down in front of a slaughterhouse where a family of cannibals live .


no dogs is a cool metaphor with a twist .


babe , a television tabloid reporter , poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an expos & # 233 ; on deeds .


the story may not be new , but australian director john polson , making his american feature debut , jazzes it up adroitly .


using this violence as a springboard , bret begins a new game , a game where only he knows the rules .


in a post communist eastern european country in 1996 the food prices are outrageous and times are tough .


in a letter to winston churchill , king explains their intention to invade france and fight the germans .


john holmes was considered the link between eddie nash and the home in which the massacre took place .


bogs down badly as we absorb jia 's moody , bad-boy behavior which he portrays himself in a one-note performance .


the movie is a meditation on the love and envy that russia has always felt toward europe , and i wo n't pretend i got more than 30 percent of what was going on .


the story begins with the discovery that otte 's visa is being withheld by the ghana embassy in holland due to a controversy in the press .


as the story unfolds , blake realizes that the master seduces young devotees including melinda and ariel into ritualistic acts of sex .


it 's got the brawn , but not the brains .


now ten years later , his hope in life now is to find line , an ideal woman lost in his imagination .


alex bernier ( ledger ) is a member of an arcane order of priests known as carolingians .


an absurd comedy about a parking enforcement officer , who - despite constant abuse from the public - finds truth , honour and serenity in the act of ticketing .


a sad , superior human comedy played out on the back roads of life .


director kapur is a filmmaker with a real flair for epic landscapes and adventure , and this is a better film than his earlier english-language movie , the overpraised elizabeth .


unfolds in a series of achronological vignettes whose cumulative effect is chilling .


he speaks villon 's poet `` i fell in love with your red hair `` .


it never quite makes it to the boiling point , but manages to sustain a good simmer for most of its running time .


john may have been an unfortunate victim forced to watch the brutal murders .


it 's a terrific american sports movie and dennis quaid is its athletic heart .


a classy item by a legend who may have nothing left to prove but still has the chops and drive to show how its done .


contrived , maudlin and cliche-ridden . . . if this sappy script was the best the contest received , those rejected must have been astronomically bad .


set in malaya during the japanese occupation in the 1940s , this film tells the story of a girl , embun , who 's thrown into the forefront of the struggle against the japanese when her freedom-fighter brother , bayu , and father are detained by the japanese .


a disfigured pop star confronts the phenomenal devotion of her biggest fan . . .


a competent , unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters across the country .


. . . perhaps the heaviest , most joyless movie ever made about giant dragons taking over the world .


fessenden has nurtured his metaphors at the expense of his narrative , but he does display an original talent .


prancing his way through the tailor-made part of a male hooker approaching the end of his vitality , jagger obviously relishes every self-mocking moment .


two lost couples find themselves stranded for the night in an old dark house where they are set upon by the family in residence that dabbles in murder , witchcraft , and cannibalism which are just a few of the 1 , 000+ secrets buried in the field behind their house .


morrissette has performed a difficult task indeed - he 's taken one of the world 's most fascinating stories and made it dull , lifeless , and irritating .


after the murder of his beloved wife , danny parker ( val kilmer ) is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems .


bloody sunday has the grace to call for prevention rather than to place blame , making it one of the best war movies ever made . it 's a movie that accomplishes so much that one viewing ca n't possibly be enough .


[ denis ] might be off her nut , but she can sure make an interesting film , a la davids lynch and cronenberg .


he can do anything but when he discovers others in buffalo who are praying , he learns that maybe this job of being god is n't really that easy .


formula 51 is pretty much quentin tarantino meets guy ritchie , as directed by ronny yu . however , if you like that sort of thing , as i do , you just might have some fun with the chemical imbalance of formula 51 .


there is an instant chemistry between them , and as they proceed to find out more about each other , we the audience are privy to their innermost thoughts by means of voice-over .


special agent rachel anderson is charged with protecting a key witness , richard harper .


so anmol returns , not with prize money but with anna and chota chhatri , and others have this wrong notion that anna is just interested in the petty contract money .


even worse , his influence of a bad las vegas obsessed him of henry having killed his real father douglas .


renee unger is living the life she always hoped for : a little red-brick house in the small town of new russia , ohio , a good husband , a prospering construction business , and a baby on the way .


stuart 's mother is being over-protective of him , especially when he narrowly escapes injury in a soccer game .


reinalda fell hopelessly in love with her long red hair and big good-goods during her days as a french panto teacher and now she will stop at nothing , including the highest office in the land , to be with her always .


accuracy and realism are terrific , but if your film becomes boring , and your dialogue is n't smart , then you need to use more poetic license .


elmo touts his drug as being 51 times stronger than coke . if you 're looking for a tale of brits behaving badly , watch snatch again . it 's 51 times better than this .


despite the film 's shortcomings , it 's still a solid effort and a thought-provoking look at idealism gone wrong .


as obi-wan 's investigations lead him to kamino , he finds a massive clone army being produced , with a bounty hunter - the last of the mandalorians - named jango fett as the master clone .


at once somber and mysterious , comical and sad . it shows just how lonely a crowded city can be .


a delectable little treat that 's sunny , funny , and far more intelligent than you 'd expect .


in keeping with the holiday spirit , the judge gives davey one last chance at redemption-spend the holiday performing community service as the assistant referee for the youth basketball league or go to jail .


but with their lives and careers on the brink of devastation , bret 's teammates and family realize that they have to take baseball - and life - back from bret packard , once and for all .


if h . g . wells had a time machine and could take a look at his kin 's reworked version , what would he say ? 'it looks good , sonny , but you missed the point . '


the soundtrack alone -- the literal pulse of the thing -- will rock you in your seat .


twohy is not only skilled at building and maintaining suspense , he 's also aware that a cast chock full of experienced character actors is the right fit for a haunted sub flick .


this undercover documentary takes you deep into the controversial arena of backyard wrestling where the limits are constantly being tested . . . and


as underwater ghost stories go , below casts its spooky net out into the atlantic ocean and spits it back , grizzled and charred , somewhere northwest of the bermuda triangle .


chilling in its objective portrait of dreary , lost twenty-first century america .


the girls are treated like outcasts because they have inadvertently wrecked townsville in a superpowered game of tag .


clever and unflinching in its comic barbs , slap her is a small but rewarding comedy that takes aim at contemporary southern adolescence and never lets up .


the story is set against a relationship that forms between the american hustler boy and a brazilian teenage girl who must help each other survive the drug gang-controlled slums of rio de janeiro .


too ordinary to restore [ harmon ] to prominence , despite some creepy scenes that evoke childish night terrors , and a praiseworthy attempt to generate suspense rather than gross out the audience .


something akin to a japanese alice through the looking glass , except that it seems to take itself far more seriously .


her mother 's friends , who formed a secret society , the ya-ya sisterhood , as children , kidnap siddalee from her new york apartment and take her home to louisiana , where they explain why her mother mistreated her with help from the secret ya-ya scrapbook ( and copious flashbacks ) .


a bit of whimsically warped history elevated by the central performance of ian holm .


aka is the story of a disaffected youth 's search for love , status , and identity in late 1970s britain .


due to a botched robbery attempt , a ruthless romanian barbarian is somehow resurrected in modern day new york and begins wreaking havok on a small manhattan art-house .


fans of the tv series will be disappointed , and everyone else will be slightly bored .


investors from around the world are intrigued to bring money to the project heavily backed by patricia .


they have one request - their bosses head on a plate .


will give many ministers and bible-study groups hours of material to discuss . but mainstream audiences will find little of interest in this film , which is often preachy and poorly acted .


it 's also curious to note that this film , like the similarly ill-timed antitrust , is easily as bad at a fraction the budget .


tambor and clayburgh make an appealing couple M-^W he 's understated and sardonic , she 's appealingly manic and energetic . both deserve better .


it uses some of the figures from the real-life story to portray themselves in the film . the result is a powerful , naturally dramatic piece of low-budget filmmaking .


what could have been a pointed little chiller about the frightening seductiveness of new technology loses faith in its own viability and succumbs to joyless special-effects excess .


`` maid in manhattan `` is a charmer , a pc `` pretty woman `` that ditches the odious prostitution theme for class commentary


when algren is injuried and captured by the samurai , learns about their warrior honor code from katsumoto , the samurai & # 180 ; s leader and decide which side of the conflict he wants to be on . . .


a band of college students go to a rave on a mysterious island and get more than they bargained for when they find themselves stalked by killer zombies and terrifying creatures intent on feasting on the flesh of the living .


while shooting an engagement party , he attempts to make a connection with jen , the beautiful sister of the bride .


an unintentionally surreal kid 's picture . . . in which actors in bad bear suits enact a sort of inter-species parody of a vh1 behind the music episode .


goes on and on to the point of nausea .


neither as scary-funny as tremors nor demented-funny as starship troopers , the movie is n't tough to take as long as you 've paid a matinee price .


i ca n't say that i liked homeboy ; it 'd be more accurate to say that i found it intriguing , bizarre , dogma-like in spots - and quite truthful , in its way .


until then , he spends most of his time watching sloppy tearjerkers on video .


with a rare gift for melding subjectivity with biographical facts , m & # 225 ; rton brings sabina spielrein back to life , body and soul .


while it does n't expose any new truths about the problems posed by reaching middle age , it reflects wisely on the truths that already exist .


if borstal boy is n't especially realistic , it is an engaging nostalgia piece .


all of this changes when he finds a large mysterious package left on his doorstep .


the feature-length stretch . . . strains the show 's concept .


unambitious writing emerges in the movie , using a plot that could have come from an animated-movie screenwriting textbook .


so fiendishly cunning that even the most jaded cinema audiences will leave the auditorium feeling dizzy , confused , and totally disorientated . not to mention absolutely refreshed .


feels like the grittiest movie that was ever made for the lifetime cable television network .


an entertaining quasi-critique of modern manners whose comedy arises out of its gravity -- and a winning performance by ricardo darin .


it ai n't art , by a long shot , but unlike last year 's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains .


devastated by her husband 's death from a drug overdose , philippa ( played by cate blanchett ) , a british teacher living in turin , italy , tries to bring justice to the biggest drug dealer in turin when the local police ignore her information about him .


once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor , a series of bizarre ocurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship , which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature .


the young man find herbert down in his jail cell and learns for himself just what the re-agent is capable of .


we just do n't really care too much about this love story . in that setting , their struggle is simply too ludicrous and borderline insulting .


a stone building , newly restored , stands in the clear light of the autumnal equinox .


struggling to fit in , jonathan decides to stop going to church only to be pursued by the members of the local singles ward who want to reactivate him .


may take its sweet time to get wherever it 's going , but if you have the patience for it , you wo n't feel like it 's wasted yours .


it 's more enjoyable than i expected , though , and that 's because the laughs come from fairly basic comedic constructs . cinematic pratfalls given a working over . the cast is spot on and the mood is laid back .


even if the naipaul original remains the real masterpiece , the movie possesses its own languorous charm .


the young man looks for comfort in his father , but he 's to occupied with winning the eurovision song contest .


everything goes wrong when they try to rob a bank , though they meet mille , who puts them onto a new trail , and peter and martin also make a contribution .


. . . watching this film nearly provoked me to take my own life . and if the hours wins 'best picture ' i just might .


the results are as giddy , painful , sad and loving as real life tends to be .


talk to her manages to be female-centric even as it explores the lives of men .


she ca n't get in there because te door is locked .


the four girls are teased and discriminated against by their other colleagues and are finally fired by their beautiful , evil boss christine .


in a botched attempt to organize a protest against their `` slave labor `` , the women take over the prison - a rare glimpse of the effects of the prison industrial complex on female inmates .


he trades his grandmother 's only treasure for a video game ; he throws his food and he throws tantrums .


kids surely will like it . and for adults , it 's perfectly watchable in a rugrats-y sort of way .


will these four be able to move on with their lives and accept the fact that it 's time to start acting their age ?


later he is catering at a party featuring a wise old guru , who gets drunk and passes out .


the inhospitability of the land emphasizes the spare precision of the narratives and helps to give them an atavistic power , as if they were tales that had been handed down since the beginning of time .


a committed , intelligent and fascinating piece of work with no irony about it .


in an era when the country 's first line of defense , intelligence , is more important than ever , comes an explosive thriller starring al pacino and colin farrell that for the first time opens the cia 's infamous closed doors and gives an insider 's view into the agency : how trainees are recruited , how they are prepared for the spy game , and what they learn to survive .


dori is 50 years old , actually the exact age of ben 's mother .


a brutally honest documentary about a much anticipated family reunion that goes wrong thanks to culture shock and a refusal to empathize with others .


[ cuarM-sn has ] created a substantive movie out of several cliched movie structures : the road movie , the coming-of-age movie , and the teenage sex comedy .


add yet another hat to a talented head , clooney 's a good director .


scooby doo is surely everything its fans are hoping it will be , and in that sense is a movie that deserves recommendation .


set in the rugged mountains and lush , untamed forests of the pacific northwest , tribe of joseph is an engrossing tale of troubled youths plucked from the familiarity of their urban lives and transported into the alien isolation and life or death danger of a survivalist existence .


people are becoming petrified , and no-one knows what is doing it .


despite the opulent lushness of every scene , the characters never seem to match the power of their surroundings .


along the way , his vendetta quest leads to the son of howard saint ( travolta ) , a former underworld boss who had gone straight , but the death of his son leads him to get back into crime , and he 's gunning for the punisher .


less worrying about covering all the drama in frida 's life and more time spent exploring her process of turning pain into art would have made this a superior movie .


when mcconaughey 's girlfriend ( played by kate beckinsale ) becomes pregnant , the pair are fearful that the baby will inherit the oldman gene .


the doctor realizes it' 's a love virus so he advises him to woo the girl somehow , not realizing that munnabhai has fallen for none other than his own younger sister komal .


nelson 's intentions are good , but the end result does no justice to the story itself . it 's horribly depressing and not very well done .


comes off like a rejected abc afterschool special , freshened up by the dunce of a screenwriting 101 class . . . . designed to provide a mix of smiles and tears , `` crossroads `` instead provokes a handful of unintentional howlers and numerous yawns .


a violent initiation rite for the audience , as much as it is for angelique , the [ opening ] dance guarantees karmen 's enthronement among the cinema 's memorable women .


these diverse motivations come together creating a big problemo .


based on frances mayes ' memoir of the same name .


a mythic motorcycle tale of father and son `` , this is the story of manuel galloway ( fishburne ) , also known as `` the king of cali `` , the president of a motorcycle club whose members are all african-american men , mostly white-collar workers who exchange their suits and ties at night and on weekends for leather outfits and motorcycle helmets .


the only life he 's known is as a gigolo , working for his mother , but he wants to leave that behind .


having an affair with his girlfriend 's professor forces him to make difficult decisions about love , friendship , career , and the direction his life should take .


beth 's style is further cramped by the responsibilities of single motherhood .


but will 's hope of a continued bachelorhood is interrupted when he meets 12-year old marcus , in many ways his complete opposite .


mel cobb leads a lonely existence in an apartment filled with clutter , his only contact with the outside world being as a weekend tele-marketer for a start-up newspaper which features stories on city road , bridge and tunnel construction workers in order to alleviate road rage among motorists who are stuck in traffic .


the characters are never more than sketches . . . which leaves any true emotional connection or identification frustratingly out of reach .


the best laid plans of hung-over boys meet a florist with a cricket bat in this morning after adventure resulting in an unexpected outcome for all .


brookdale has another , more lucrative facet ; a safe harbour for the chronically drug-addicted rich and famous , especially the sons and daughters of the above , whose families have tried everything .


the cast has a high time , but de broca has little enthusiasm for such antique pulp .


may reawaken discussion of the kennedy assassination but this fictional film looks made for cable rather than for the big screen .


only two words will tell you what you know when deciding to see it : anthony . hopkins .


if much of me without you strikes a familiar chord , it also intelligently captures the difficulties that can disrupt even a close friendship .


their plan is to take jason back home to crystal lake and have both freddy and jason destroy each other .


rarely do films come along that are as intelligent , exuberant , and moving as monsoon wedding .


we also catch a glimpse of the band 's ideas about performance from the blend of footage from concerts , television , music videos , and other media .


the jew ( shylock ) has a long memory of oppression , but revenge is not so sweet .


thirty years ago , it would have been groundbreaking . now it 's just tired .


although tender and touching , the movie would have benefited from a little more dramatic tension and some more editing .


is this dead visitor all in keith 's head or is she truly a mother ghost ?


disappointing in comparison to other recent war moviesM-^Eor any other john woo flick for that matter .


easily stands alongside such throat-clutching classics of cinematic political action as z and the battle of algiers .


the film is like sitting in a downtown cafM-i , overhearing a bunch of typical late-twenty-somethings natter on about nothing , and desperately wishing you could change tables .


a young aboriginal man max stuart , was convicted of murder in the light of questionable evidence presented , of nine year old mary hattam near ceduna , on the south coast of australia .


ultimately feels empty and unsatisfying , like swallowing a communion wafer without the wine .


a dedicated scientist , aided by his clueless wife , rolls up his shirt sleeves and tries to save the world from a radioactive monster , curious space aliens , an evil scientist and a crabby skeleton in this send-up of the best of the b movies of the 1950 's .


naipaul fans may be disappointed . those who are not acquainted with the author 's work , on the other hand , may fall fast asleep .


inspired and motivated , the kids save the day , showing bravery and nobility .


one thing led to another until she ended up giving her virginity not knowing that he made a bet with his friends .


yan tells lynn he loves her and wants to marry her .


`` the institute `` is also for the once-famous , who , having bottomed out , also have no where else to turn but brookdale .


for all its technical virtuosity , the film is so mired in juvenile and near-xenophobic pedagogy that it 's enough to make one pine for the day when godard can no longer handle the rigors of filmmaking .


a sweet-natured reconsideration of one of san francisco 's most vital , if least widely recognized , creative fountainheads .


many can not hold a job , or choose not to .


do n't wait to see this terrific film with your kids -- if you do n't have kids borrow some .


well , he wakes up on the night when the tooth fairy is supposed to come and get his last tooth and sees her .


this tenth feature is a big deal , indeed -- at least the third-best , and maybe even a notch above the previous runner-up , nicholas meyer 's star trek vi : the undiscovered country .


the country was at the start of a rapid process of industrialization and social change .


for all of the contemporary post-colonialist consciousness that kapur tries to bring to the four feathers , the oddest thing about the movie is how it winds up affirming the same damn moldy values the material has always held dear .


a memorable experience that , like many of his works , presents weighty issues colorfully wrapped up in his own idiosyncratic strain of kitschy goodwill .


m & # 225 ; rton 's deft re-enactments and the actors ' dramatic readings of spielrein 's own words tell a chilling story , bringing to light both the work of this pioneer and the dark side of psychoanalysis .


a mind-bender in the best sense of the word : the spell it casts follows you all the way home .


but when she escapes a horrific car accident , she finds herself in death 's path of destruction .


a powerful and telling story that examines forbidden love , racial tension , and other issues that are as valid today as they were in the 1950s .


it is so refreshing to see robin williams turn 180 degrees from the string of insultingly innocuous and sappy fiascoes he 's been making for the last several years .


an amusing , breezily apolitical documentary about life on the campaign trail .


the tone errs on the shrill side , tempered by a soft southern gentility that speaks of beauty , grace and a closet full of skeletons .


ms . bennett is worth watching , and her story is weirdly detailed enough to prove once more that truth is too strange for good fiction .


a sluggish pace and lack of genuine narrative hem the movie in every bit as much as life hems in the spirits of these young women .


rugged contractor rick eyes beth but ends up going home with the more assertive debby .


moving to the big city , deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie .


as beacons of individuality in a sea of government conformity they represent freedom for those who own them .


the girls want to do a girly pop song , and the entire jury panel consist of muslim boys !


'butterfingered ' is the word for the big-fisted direction of jez butterworth , who manages to blast even the smallest sensitivities from the romance with his clamorous approach .


steven soderbergh 's digital video experiment is a clever and cutting , quick and dirty look at modern living and movie life .


a respectable venture on its own terms , lacking the broader vision that has seen certain trek films . . . cross over to a more mainstream audience .


. . . 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 .


like life on the island , the movie grows boring despite the scenery .


but with the help of a superhero and a mysterious deep-voiced stranger , arnold and gerald will need to recover a crucial document in order to save their beloved neighborhood .


what 's at stake in this film is nothing more than an obsolete , if irritating , notion of class .


. . . a rousing fantasy of bloodless revolution against capricious colonial rulers .


missing her opportunity with him that night , cameron diaz is talked into pursuing him to his brother 's wedding .


the film is grossly contradictory in conveying its social message , if indeed there is one .


the movie is engaging and well acted , though , and the pink panther-style credits and background music are worth the price of admission .


a smart , steamy mix of road movie , coming-of-age story and political satire .


he enters an unknown world of rituals and cutural perceptions , and fixes everything in his own unique way .


what makes the film special is the refreshingly unhibited enthusiasm that the people , in spite of clearly evident poverty and hardship , bring to their music .


like other almodM-svar films , it delights in its scandals . but its sensitivities are extravagant , which means it 's one of the most beautiful black comedies ever made .


ray 's always playing the angles , and he 's got his eye on a horse that 's cheap because it 's been misdiagnosed .


spy kids 2 also happens to be that rarity among sequels : it actually improves upon the original hit movie .


after his friend , a hot young artist , is killed , a resourceful american man living in london covers up the crime and tries to keep the friend 's name alive in order to exploit his legacy and reap millions in the process .


though each with their distinctive story , all three are interwoven with the other .


when all seems hopeless , ted gets some guidance from his good friend meg that turns the situation around : `` do n't scam on her , listen to her , be sincere . ``


meyjes 's movie , like max rothman 's future , does not work .


light the candles , bring out the cake and do n't fret about the calories because there 's precious little substance in birthday girl -- it 's simply , and surprisingly , a nice , light treat .


while the frequent allusions to gurus and doshas will strike some westerners as verging on mumbo-jumbo . . . broad streaks of common sense emerge with unimpeachable clarity .


it 's fitting that a movie as artificial and soulless as the country bears owes its genesis to an animatronic display at disneyland .


but even this new relationship is not enough to inspire him to write .


gay or straight , kissing jessica stein is one of the greatest date movies in years .


graced with the kind of social texture and realism that would be foreign in american teen comedies .


a deft script by mike white . . . elevates the usual teen twaddle by grounding the laughs in feeling .


all is faultless , until fay 's parents ' marriage breaks down suddenly , out of nowhere , after 40 years of wedded bliss .


sharing the clink with velma , are a collection of other sly females , all awaiting trial for the murders of their own partners .


standard story of a biker gang taking over a town is not saved by the presence of lou diamond phillips as the head biker or sean patrcik flanery as the avenging townsperson who takes on the gangs with the help of an old codger ( robert forster ) .


now their quickly expanding population threatens the existence of vampires , and soon there wo n't be enough humans in the world to satisfy their bloodlust .


in the early 1900 's , a new invention ( and one of the very first uses of the electric motor ) was created to address the 'problem ' of women 's hysteria .


once again , the case seems to be solved with this spectacular arrest .


weird , vulgar comedy that 's definitely an acquired taste .


the funk brothers seem to have hardly missed a beat .


cliff has always preferred to play by his own rules much to the disapproval of the regimented , elderly bowls fraternity .


lee 's achievement extends to his supple understanding of the role that brown played in american culture as an athlete , a movie star , and an image of black indomitability .


. . . liotta is put in an impossible spot because his character 's deceptions ultimately undo him and the believability of the entire scenario . too bad .


to pull him out of his now dangerous financial predicament will turns to his wealthy in-laws , spinning a myriad of desperate lies , half-truths and deceptions .


john roper , ( bruce mathews ) a disillusioned vietnam vet and ex-drug dealer travels through the orient to get spiritual .


he dreams of shedding all material worth and going on a spiritual awakening .


they came to pray , but instead they end up in the middle of an unpleasant religious argument as they suddenly get interrupted by a mystical appearance : is it god ?


it 's the unsettling images of a war-ravaged land that prove more potent and riveting than the unlikely story of sarah and harrison .


rock solid family fun out of the gates , extremely imaginative through out , but wanes in the middle


a bigger holiday downer than your end-of-year 401 ( k ) statement .


haunted by the memories of war , he seeks a quiet life of farming , solitude and prayer .


the sequel is everything the original was not : contrived , overblown and tie-in ready .


when 19 year old tommy , a gay rights activist and 24 year old alan first meet in 1973 , they find themselves on the opposite sides of the political coin .


the story of ray , a personal injury attorney facing a moral and spiritual crisis .


the film has a laundry list of minor shortcomings , but the numerous scenes of gory mayhem are worth the price of admission . . . if `` gory mayhem `` is your idea of a good time .


one regards reign of fire with awe . what a vast enterprise has been marshaled in the service of such a minute idea .


but nobody figured sam decker and his juvenile delinquents into the equation .


this thing works on no level whatsoever for me .


while not all transitions to adulthood are so fraught , there 's much truth and no small amount of poetry in girls ca n't swim .


ben cronin has it all : the admiration of his many friends , a terrific girlfriend , and he 's on the fast-track to an athletic scholarship .


sitting in front of a computer , drinking excessive amounts of coffee and smoking cigarettes are the different tasks that keep dana awake and ready for the next message .


a baffling misfire , and possibly the weakest movie [ woody allen ] has made in the last twenty years .


tuck everlasting is the story of a girl named winnie and a family who she meets , the tucks .


three stories are created by three artists who happen to meet together on the same subway .


color , musical bounce and warm seas lapping on island shores . and just enough science to send you home thinking .


donde cae el sol tells a little story between a 65 years ol man and a woman who is thirty years younger that him .


vicious , the future descendant of james and jessie of team rocket , travels back in time to wreak havoc , and it 's up to young ash , pikachu and friends to stop him .


as social exposM-i , skins has its heart in the right place , but that 's not much to hang a soap opera on .


oedekerk mugs mercilessly , and the genuinely funny jokes are few and far between .


responsM-avel direto pelo fracasso 'artM-mstico ' de doce lar , o roteirista c . jay cox nM-co consegue sequer aproveitar os pouquM-mssimos momentos em que escapa da mediocridade .


it 's too self-important and plodding to be funny , and too clipped and abbreviated to be an epic .


but who is the one doing it , malfoy , gamekeeper hagrid ( robbie coltrane ) , or , even , harry ?


this big screen caper has a good bark , far from being a bow-wow .


this is unusual , food-for-thought cinema that 's as entertaining as it is instructive .


as an adult , bruce has repressed all memories of his parents do to some horrible event that occured when he was 4 . bruce krensler ( as he uses his adoptive parent 's name ) is working in the same field as his father when a freak lab accident triggers the dormant dna in his body .


they do n't see eye-to-eye on clothes , hair , music , and certainly not in each other 's taste in men .


parker can not sustain the buoyant energy level of the film 's city beginnings into its country conclusion


they continue with all the same characteristics trademarks of the shin-hyun serial killings .


diego , one of the tigers that attacked the humans , comes also claiming the baby .


it 's a drawling , slobbering , lovable run-on sentence of a film , a southern gothic with the emotional arc of its raw blues soundtrack .


while the two are falling for each other , the syndicate boss coincidentally sees sienna and hires her as his personal dancer .


when john klein , a washington post journalist , and his wife mary finally find the house of their dreams , they just ca n't believe their luck .


conflict enters their relationship when anthony expresses to victoria that their sex life is practically non-existent .


starting off small , dealing to the high school and college market , kilo discovers the drug business to be very profitable .


julie davis is the kathie lee gifford of film directors , sadly proving once again ego does n't always go hand in hand with talent .


what might have emerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of woody allen or mel brooks ( at least during their '70s heyday ) comes across as lame and sophomoric in this debut indie feature .


two brothers along with an ensemble of fresh talent made all this possible and were brought into the light .


light , silly , photographed with colour and depth , and rather a good time .


[ reno ] may have a few grating gaps in logic and feels as if a good chunk of its story ended up on the cutting room floor , but there is just enough charm and humor peppered throughout to make it feel as if it was n't a complete waste of time to sit through .


purports to be a hollywood satire but winds up as the kind of film that should be the target of something deeper and more engaging . oh , and more entertaining , too .


worth seeing once , but its charm quickly fades .


this is the story of honey ( alba ) , a tough sexy dancer from the inner city , who becomes a successful music video choreographer , a career which is threatened when her mentor makes him either sleep with him . . .


involving at times , but lapses quite casually into the absurd .


however , this task is going to be more difficult than he could ever have imagined .


john `` eagle eye `` pennell travels the country collecting his former b-17 crewmen in order to fulfill a pact made many years ago in the heat of battle .


a grimly competent and stolid and earnest military courtroom drama .


after many years of sleeping in his coffin , the vampire lestat awakens only to find that the world has changed and he wants to be a part of it .


it 's a hoot watching the rock chomp on jumbo ants , pull an arrow out of his back , and leap unscathed through raging fire !


in the tradition of storytelling , the filmmaker creates a visual parable about the hasidic community that she left as a teenager .


tavernier shows us , in more ways than one , that le cinM-i ma de qualitM-i lives on .


there 's a heavy stench of 'been there , done that ' hanging over the film . it 's everything you 'd expect -- but nothing more .


unfortunately , her plan goes wrong , and she actually kills herself .


born in eastern europe , tobias grew up in poverty , the son of a thief , beggar and prostitute .


uzumaki 's interesting social parallel and defiant aesthetic seems a prostituted muse . . .


emma agrees to bret 's plan and the thefts are go smoothly , resulting in enough money for the lovers to go away , but emma wants more .


a morose little soap opera about three vapid , insensitive people who take turns hurting each other . it 's a feature-length adaptation of one of those `` can this marriage be saved ? `` columns from ladies home journal . . .


it is really quite ironic then that the one guy putting out consistently good comedy is hollywood 's most serious actor .


heavily pregnant , and wanting to terminate her pregnancy , she 's on the run from the future parents , searching for sophie 's old flame , ken .


this is a film version of the play they wrote based on more than 200 interviews they conducted in laramie .


club le monde follows an evening out at a seedy nightspot .


this is more a case of 'sacre bleu ! ' than 'magnifique ' .


a great ending does n't make up for a weak movie , and crazy as hell does n't even have a great ending .


this is a movie where the most notable observation is how long you 've been sitting still .


on the way there , he sees a sports car that just hit a tree .


apparently designed as a reverie about memory and regret , but the only thing you 'll regret is remembering the experience of sitting through it .


trying to avoid jail time from credit card fraud , price ( patrick mcknight ) , at the advice of his cousin , hides out at a college fraternity .


we are taken on this journey through the voice and body of mnemosyne , mother of memory .


the soundtrack alone is worth the price of admission .


michael rooker plays a guard , fisher stevens , john seda , and master p co star .


horace and colt , a fifty-something married couple , are divided - they have lost the key , to their room and to each other .


conveniently numbed and estranged from her surroundings , lillian sleepwalks through life .


although some viewers will not be able to stomach so much tongue-in-cheek weirdness , those who do will have found a cult favorite to enjoy for a lifetime .


blake now starts to sink into the scary , twisted world of the master where sharing , sacrifice and loyalty take on bizarre and dangerous new meanings .


it goes on for too long and bogs down in a surfeit of characters and unnecessary subplots .


it 's somewhat clumsy and too lethargically paced -- but its story about a mysterious creature with psychic abilities offers a solid build-up , a terrific climax , and some nice chills along the way .


his comedy premises are often hackneyed or just plain crude , calculated to provoke shocked laughter , without following up on a deeper level .


the weakest of the four harry potter books has been transformed into the stronger of the two films by the thinnest of margins .


the result of an old cia mind-control experiment gone bad , felice quick is on the loose and headed for junior-high school teacher sam blacker .


love , politics and intrigue intermingle in this taut retelling of graham greene 's classic tale of a disillusioned british journalist , an idealistic young american and the beautiful vietnamese woman that comes between them in 1950s saigon .


the water game is a teen action drama following a group of graduating high school students as they embark on playing a spy vs . spy type game three weeks prior to graduation .


a documentary seven years in the making about women in the film business and how they balance , children , love lives and career -- or how they do n't .


in spite of his incarceration , west has been continuing his re-animation research , using rats and mice for subjects , and electrocuting them with a special jerry-rigged apparatus .


i do n't know if frailty will turn bill paxton into an a-list director , but he can rest contentedly with the knowledge that he 's made at least one damn fine horror movie .


playwright siddalee walker , on the verge of opening a new play , gives a magazine interview in which she discusses her unhappy childhood .


children may not understand everything that happens -- i 'm not sure even miyazaki himself does -- but they will almost certainly be fascinated , and undoubtedly delighted .


set against the picturesque landscape of the mississippi delta in the 1940 's , `` the rising place `` follows the close friendship of two young women , each of a different race , and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injustice and world war .


ram dass fierce grace moulds itself as an example to up-and-coming documentarians , of the overlooked pitfalls of such an endeavour .


that such a horrible movie could have sprung from such a great one is one of the year 's worst cinematic tragedies .


this documentary of cameroon 's repressive political realities begins with the 1990 publication of an open letter to president biya calling for a national conference and the immediate arrest of the letter 's author and publisher .


the film covers the life of young patricia ( jolie jackunas ) who longs for a career as a singer and songwriter .


an entertaining , surprisingly well-written and often rowdily amusing picture .


after having christmas present and rent money stolen by someone posing as santa , they get jobs working as unarmed security guards in the local mall , they get threatened with eviction , pick up girls , get drunk , take drugs and need quick cash .


a well-made but emotionally scattered film whose hero gives his heart only to the dog .


madison , the `` new girl in town , `` quickly sets her sights on the impressionable ben .


believing his parent 's dead , bruce is raised by adoptive parents .


`` the ballad of bering strait `` is a cinema-verite film following seven russian teenagers who have come to america to become country music stars .


cold and scattered , minority report commands interest almost solely as an exercise in gorgeous visuals . that 's not vintage spielberg and that , finally , is minimally satisfying .


so the hunt begins as ted delivers a first round of come-ons and invitations for his object of desire to become entangled , but nothing works .


in his role of observer of the scene , lawrence sounds whiny and defensive , as if his life-altering experiences made him bitter and less mature .


culled from nearly two years of filming , the documentary 's candid interviews , lyric moments of grim beauty , and powerful verite footage takes us beyond the usual stereotypes of the rap world and into the life of tislam milliner , a struggling rapper who 's ambitious to make it out of the `` hood `` .


however , jane , wendy 's 12-year-old daughter , sees it all as make believe and refuses to believe in the tales .


( king plays a `` russian mob princess `` ; roden plays an evil kung fu master who is seeking the scroll ) based on the very underground comic book , an immortal tibetan monk ( chow ) finds a mentor in a young street kid ( scott ) whom he can teach to protect the ancient scroll he 's been guarding for the last sixty years .


the controversial bad-boy of comedy delivers a piercing look at his life , lifting the metaphorical smokescreen that he feels has clouded the public view , commenting on everything from the dangers of smoking to the trials of relationships , and unleashing a nonstop litany of raucous anecdotes , stinging social commentary and very personal reflections about life .


bow 's best moments are when he 's getting busy on the basketball court because that 's when he really scores .


a colorful , joyous celebration of life ; a tapestry woven of romance , dancing , singing , and unforgettable characters .


if you are curious to see the darker side of what 's going on with young tv actors ( dawson leery did what ? ! ? ) , or see some interesting storytelling devices , you might want to check it out , but there 's nothing very attractive about this movie .


but hamilton high is about to become an all too real battleground when a well-organized group of killers armed with automatic weapons and explosives invade the supposedly deserted school after hours to use it as an operating base for meticulously planned armored car robbery .


undecided about his future , yun fei , an unknown young poet , goes to visit an old university friend in the suburbs of beijing to seek his advice .


in this bittersweet slice of working class single new jersey life , best friends debby and beth ( both pushing thirty ) go looking for love in the wrong place - namely their favorite bar , oliver 's .


when a chinese rebel murders chon 's estranged father and escapes to england , chon and roy make their way to london with revenge on their minds .


this does n't go down well with his superiors and they decide that rajput is now a liability to the bank and they sack him .


armed with $ 20 dollars and a backpack pastor william sets off on an adventure across the united states in an adventure that would change the lives of millions and test him beyond measure .


M-^Ethe story is far-flung , illogical , and plain stupid .


most of them realize it is counterfeit , but too late to take action .


the work of an exhausted , desiccated talent who ca n't get out of his own way .


if you like blood , guts and crazy beasts stalking men with guns though . . . you will likely enjoy this monster .


enigma is anything but enigmatic about affairs of the heart , and is well worth seeing for its elective affinities alone .


a full world has been presented onscreen , not some series of carefully structured plot points building to a pat resolution .


upon his arrival he hears talk about monroe hutchen ( snipes ) who is the top ranked prison boxing champ 10 years running .


an offbeat horror tale about a group of five college friends on vacation at a remote mountain cabin when one contracts a flesh-eating virus .


for those in search of something different , wendigo is a genuinely bone-chilling tale .


part of the film 's cheeky charm comes from its vintage schmaltz .


though he tried to maintain a life of solitude , he is soon entangled with an artist who is struggling with a personal tragedy and an overly-friendly cuban hot dog vendor .


a powerful , compelling and intelligent if imperfect work . . . a film of enormous ambition which realizes its aims more often than not .


this is not a retread of `` dead poets ' society . ``


ritchie may not have a novel thought in his head , but he knows how to pose madonna .


when carlitos is released after doing 2 years of `` hard time `` , he attempts to redeem himself and sets an example for his 5 year-old son .


ritchie 's film is easier to swallow than wertmuller 's polemical allegory , but it 's self-defeatingly decorous .


viewed on its own terms , treasure planet is better-than-average family entertainment , but true fans of the stevenson 's novel will likely prefer disney 's more faithful 1950 live-action swashbuckling classic .


it has been a year since johnny and wayne created the ultimate bra for samantha 's company .


however , when novak 's book is a complete success , catcher finds himself being blown off by her !


been there , done that , liked it much better the first time around - when it was called the professional .


characterisation has been sacrificed for the sake of spectacle .


just as steven spielberg directed stanley kubrick 's 'a . i . ' ,


a sexy , peculiar and always entertaining costume drama set in renaissance spain , and the fact that it 's based on true events somehow makes it all the more compelling .


these two facts cause a chain of events that changes not only her life , but also that of her friends in a brutal way . . .


while the subject 's appeal is limited and the film 's 106-minute running time excessive , viewers who do respond to the pic will find it raw , real and cathartic .


speaks eloquently about the symbiotic relationship between art and life .


it picked me up , swung me around , and dropped me back in my seat with more emotional force than any other recent film .


if you 're able to go , relax and lower your expectations , you might be carried away by it .


land , people and narrative flow together in a stark portrait of motherhood deferred and desire explored .


less about shakespeare than the spawn of fools who saw quentin tarantino 's handful of raucous gangster films and branched out into their own pseudo-witty copycat interpretations .


as asked in the first movie , what sort of people name their son gay m . focker ?


set in 1989 , during the historical week in which the berlin wall came tumbling down .


so mind-numbingly awful that you hope britney wo n't do it one more time , as far as movies are concerned .


the young man keeps searching and finds an oasis of freedom in a sunflower field .


mitch ( michael paloma ) , our leading man , is an ex-desert storm hero with a lot of bad luck .


at the end of the movie , my 6-year-old nephew said , `` i guess i come from a broken family , and my uncles are all aliens , too . `` congrats disney on a job well done , i enjoyed it just as much !


this is the kind of movie 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 .


[ fiji diver rusi vulakoro and the married couple howard and michelle hall ] show us the world they love and make us love it , too .


when the fire burns out , we 've only come face-to-face with a couple dragons and that 's where the film ultimately fails .


jolynn is convinced her clock is ticking and is dead set on making dave hear it -- and on making dave do the laundry .


his intricate paintings of the devil and his elaborate journal entries depicting encounters with him led sigmund freud to diagnose him as one of the first known schizophrenics .


awara paagal deewana is an action comedy , which revolves around a dentist who accidentally gets trapped into underworld and goes in for a roller coaster ride .


and so he does , at the risk of exposing the ugly truth beneath his false facade .


assigned to the vicious in-club slaying of a promising young rap act , the two detective delve into the recording industry where they hope to find answers - ideally ones that also come with property buyers or auditions .


it 's endearing to hear madame d . refer to her husband as 'jackie ' -- and he does make for excellent company , not least as a self-conscious performer .


could use a little more humanity , but it never lacks in eye-popping visuals .


more concerned with sade 's ideas than with his actions . the movie achieves as great an impact by keeping these thoughts hidden as . . . [ quills ] did by showing them .


talk to her is so darned assured , we have absolutely no idea who the main characters are until the film is well under way -- and yet it 's hard to stop watching .


if there was any doubt that peter o'fallon did n't have an original bone in his body , a rumor of angels should dispel it .


a mawkish , implausible platonic romance that makes chaplin 's city lights seem dispassionate by comparison .


peralta captures , in luminous interviews and amazingly evocative film from three decades ago , the essence of the dogtown experience .


film ca n't quite maintain its initial momentum , but remains sporadically funny throughout .


years after escaping to the wastelands outside the city , claire , one of the few people left who is not an addict , returns looking for the one man who still matters to her .


they then took over a pub in glenrowan , where they basically held a party , waiting for a train full of police to derail at a part of the track that they tore up .


it is a timely film and a transporting one .


unlike his directorial efforts , la femme nikita and the professional , the transporter lacks besson 's perspective as a storyteller .


an unintentional parody of every teen movie made in the last five years .


martha is rich in contradictions , her tightly wound personality running counter to the sensual pleasure she offers others through her art .


having never been a huge fan of dickens ' 800-page novel , it surprised me how much pleasure i had watching mcgrath 's version .


[ while the last metro ] was more melodramatic , confined to a single theater company and its strategies and deceptions , while tavernier is more concerned with the entire period of history .


. . . comes alive only when it switches gears to the sentimental .


by candidly detailing the politics involved in the creation of an extraordinary piece of music , [ jones ] calls our attention to the inherent conflict between commerce and creativity .


in the early years , mitra is repeatedly punished as the warden tries to break her .


levi , is an ex-navy man and an animal rights activist who returns home to find the war at home harder to fight than anything he 's ever encountered , but what and who is he fighting for ?


enter stella ( theron ) , a beautiful nerves-of-steel safecracker , who joins charlie and his former gang when they follow the backstabber to california , where they plan to re-steal the gold by tapping into los angeles ' traffic control system , manipulating signals and creating one of the biggest traffic jams in la history .


but his mentor and `` trainer `` joe ( chazz palminteri ) , a shady hustler who decides how and who johnny plays , is holding him back from his dream .


a quirky family parks its trailer on a texas desert and tries to build the golf course of the father 's dreams .


no film could possibly be more contemptuous of the single female population .


and could going through with it destroy their marriages and friendships ?


the limited sets and small confined and dark spaces also are homages to a classic low-budget film noir movie .


crazy jones is the story of finnigan jones , a depressed , semi-suicidal leaf-blower with tourette 's syndrome ( t . s . ) .


harris commands the screen , using his frailty to suggest the ravages of a life of corruption and ruthlessness .


. . . a ho-hum affair , always watchable yet hardly memorable .


shows that jackie chan is getting older , and that 's something i would rather live in denial about


in this vivid , emotionally complex ensemble piece , korean writer-director jeong jae-eun portrays this extraordinary turning point in every woman 's life .


haruna passes her days looking at the sea , her beautiful face is bandaged .


just about all of the film is confusing on one level or another , making ararat far more demanding than it needs to be .


huppert 's superbly controlled display of murderous vulnerability ensures that malice has a very human face .


after a drastic confrontation with the 'normal ' outside world that results in fighting and panic , the group breaks up .


one is found in the city 's landfill site , and the other is horrifically murdered on a public bus .


she tells him , and they go to the sonogram appointment together .


it helps in establishing connections , for instance between the strangely german kulturfilm and the film avant-garde of la sarraz .


a little judicious editing would have helped a lot , but the talented cast matches the film 's ambitions and compensates for its modest budget .


the aaa of action , xxx is a blast of adrenalin , rated eee for excitement . and vin diesel is the man .


chep 's growing love for fran makes him willing to prowl the dark streets at night in search of items for her .


brings awareness to an issue often overlooked -- women 's depression .


the whole thing plays like a tired tyco ad .


he indeed is douglas ( timothy bottoms ) , a perfect look-a-like .


as his friends , family and representatives come to his aid , scotty 's inability to write propels his life into a direction from which he may not be able to regain control .


it 's clear why deuces wild , which was shot two years ago , has been gathering dust on mgm 's shelf .


it will take a strong stomach for the ordinary viewer to maintain an appetite for pinochet apologetics after this litany of suffering .


but things did not work as he planned , until . . .


en este ambiente de violencia y pesimismo , salva y & # 193 ; ngel , dos p & # 237 ; caros de barrio , se ganan la vida mendigando en el metro para sus patatas bravas y sus verm & # 250 ; s de grifo .


after a glamorous -- but short-lived -- career as a movie star , evans tried out producing .


the chase is on - the russians , whose dna code it is that mattie has in her backpack , and a group of terrorists compete to get the code from the person they all assume has it , gerry .


munnabhai starts wooing komal but she is in love with raja ( ajay devgan ) , a local vagabond doing nothing except working in a bowling alley as a bouncer .


i complain all the time about seeing the same ideas repeated in films over and over again , but the bourne identity proves that a fresh take is always possible .


after being arrested , a young street-racing addict attempts to avoid the pitfalls of his illegal pastime .


upon sighting a small , previously not there , diner , he pulls in to find help .


underachieves only in not taking the shakespeare parallels quite far enough .


with his signature sense of angry humour , activist filmmaker michael moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed .


the kind of history lesson that you would n't mind seeing again and again , no matter the format .


a well-crafted film that is all the more remarkable because it achieves its emotional power and moments of revelation with restraint and a delicate ambiguity .


smart and fun , but far more witty than it is wise .


it 's as if a bored cage spent the duration of the film 's shooting schedule waiting to scream : `` got aids yet ? ``


feels a little too carefully crafted to be absolutely truthful , but nonetheless yields rich food for thought about the pains of the creative process and the insecurities of the artistic temperament .


she falls in love with a successful magician , whose life she has destroyed just by doing her job .


with so many movies out there trying and failing to produce a single honest thrill , it 's so nice to see one come along that 's packed from start to finish with 'em .


cho 's latest comic set is n't as sharp or as fresh as i 'm the one that i want . . . but it 's still damn funny stuff .


along the way , he encounters some strange characters , one of which is a cow trained in the martial arts .


mindless yet impressively lean spinoff of last summer 's bloated effects fest the mummy returns .


another useless recycling of a brutal mid-'70s american sports movie .


to ease their roommate ( selma blair ) through a relationship-induced depression , cameron diaz and christina applegate take her out on the town .


she must stand trial to seek freedom from a life of imprisonment .


with a shower like this , what could go wrong with the wedding ?


shainberg weaves a carefully balanced scenario that is controlled by neither character , is weirdly sympathetic to both and manages to be tender and darkly comic .


by abstracting and showing extreme details and connecting routines with themes and emotions , liesbeth worm gives a whole new perspective on day to day life .


an invaluable historical document thanks to the filmmaker 's extraordinary access to massoud , whose charm , cultivation and devotion to his people are readily apparent .


even if you have no interest in the gang-infested , east-vs . -west coast rap wars , this modern mob music drama never fails to fascinate .


arliss howard 's ambitious , moving , and adventurous directorial debut , big bad love , meets so many of the challenges it poses for itself that one can forgive the film its flaws .


[ seagal 's ] strenuous attempt at a change in expression could very well clinch him this year 's razzie .


much like its easily dismissive take on the upscale lifestyle , there is n't much there here .


a great cast and a wonderful but sometimes confusing flashback movie about growing up in a dysfunctional family .


a true story set in modern times to bring people closer to the knowledge that there is a better way .


watch as the archetypal stories of life and death , love and renewal , and battles between good and evil cross lines of culture and class to speak in the language of raw human emotion .


cube 's charisma and chemistry compensate for corniness and cliche .


it 's not that waiting for happiness is a bad film , because it is n't . it 's just incredibly dull .


though tom shadyac 's film kicks off spookily enough , around the halfway mark it takes an abrupt turn into glucose sentimentality and laughable contrivance .


there seems to be no clear path as to where the story 's going , or how long it 's going to take to get there .


while other kids buy into countless hours of studying just so they can get a mark in some teacher 's report book , handsome davis sees it as nothing more than a system of control over your mind .


he naively muddles through an underworld of illegal immigrants , immigration lawyers and the ins , and the love of an american girl of indian origin .


a chicago north side brothel is the setting for double-dealing and blackmail when a new madam arrives .


for all its plot twists , and some of them verge on the bizarre as the film winds down , blood work is a strong , character-oriented piece .


what the director can & # 8217 ; t do is make either of val kilmer & # 8217 ; s two personas interesting or worth caring about .


the large-frame imax camera lends itself beautifully to filming the teeming life on the reefs , making this gorgeous film a must for everyone from junior scientists to grown-up fish lovers .


it 's tommy 's job to clean the peep booths surrounding her , and after viewing this one , you 'll feel like mopping up , too .


well , there is a boy named kyle who gets a warning from his friend caitlin to not peek .


although the film boils down to a lightweight story about matchmaking , the characters make italian for beginners worth the journey


claire has a great job , great friends , and a great marriage .


the charm of the first movie is still there , and the story feels like the logical , unforced continuation of the careers of a pair of spy kids .


we 've seen the hippie-turned-yuppie plot before , but there 's an enthusiastic charm in < i ? fire that makes the formula fresh again .


tunney , brimming with coltish , neurotic energy , holds the screen like a true star .


genuine movie magic . . . it transports you to a place somewhere between eavesdropping voyeur and silent referee .


it 's not that their lives are not turning out as expected - it 's that they 're turning out exactly as expected .


it almost plays like solaris , but with guns and jokes .


there 's not a single jump-in-your-seat moment and believe it or not , jason actually takes a backseat in his own film to special effects .


though perry and hurley make inspiring efforts to breathe life into the disjointed , haphazard script by jay scherick and david ronn , neither the actors nor director reginald hudlin can make it more than fitfully entertaining .


dr . david banner , while working on a military project to create a super-soldier of sorts , purposefully modifies his own dna .


once upon a time , in a tiny french village , little reinalda had dreams of a bright future on the stage - being one half of a singing , dancing musical troupe with her father .


murder , cannibalism and satanic rituals are just a few of the 1000+ horrors that await .


the rabbi refuses , but gives goldman peculiar advice on how to do away with her , setting into motion a series of unexpected events .


since bursting onto the music scene last year with her double platinum first album 'pie on my face ' , tildy st .


when crystal 's infidelities become overwhelming , kali kicks her out .


lotte goes to live with her upper middle class dutch aunt in holland , anna to work as a farm hand on her german uncle 's rural farm .


. . . there are enough moments of heartbreaking honesty to keep one glued to the screen .


stuart rescues a canary , margalo , from a falcon ; she moves in with the littles .


a dark psychological drama , i love your work explores the pressures of fame and the difference between getting what you want and wanting what you get .


carlos ramirez , 28 , lives in the dominican neighborhood of washington heights in new york city , where his father eddie runs a local bodega .


defies logic , the laws of physics and almost anyone 's willingness to believe in it . but darned if it does n't also keep us riveted to our seats .


the new code has the ability to mutate and adapt to any computer environment just like organisms can adapt .


a sexy urban comedy about how a guy who is addicted to watching pornography discovers love is stronger than fantasy when he meets and falls in love with the girl of his dreams .


a fake street drama that keeps telling you things instead of showing them .


once the viewer accepts the huge leaps of faith required in the film 's premise , it 's a lot of fun to strap oneself in and enjoy this goofy ride .


his love changes vesa , who till then has been fraught with malice to everybody .


these blow up another ship with jews , deports and jails the atlantic 's refugees in palestine , and then deports them to far-off mauritius islands for 5 years in jail : until the end of the war .


as exciting as all this exoticism might sound to the typical pax viewer , the rest of us will be lulled into a coma .


hypnotically dull , relentlessly downbeat , laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a depressed fifteen-year-old 's suicidal poetry .


the warm presence of zhao benshan makes the preposterous lying hero into something more than he reasonably should be .


if reno is to the left of liberal on the political spectrum , her tough , funny , rather chaotic show is n't subversive so much as it is nit-picky about the hypocrisies of our time .


well-intentioned though it may be , its soap-opera morality tales have the antiseptic , preprogrammed feel of an after-school special .


then he meets syd , a 12 year-old girl with bright clothes and green hair .


a tender , witty , captivating film about friendship , love , memory , trust and loyalty .


while the new film is much more eye-catching than its blood-drenched stephen norrington-directed predecessor , the new script by the returning david s . goyer is much sillier .


the director , mark pellington , does a terrific job conjuring up a sinister , menacing atmosphere though unfortunately all the story gives us is flashing red lights , a rattling noise , and a bump on the head .


the lion king was a roaring success when it was released eight years ago , but on imax it seems better , not just bigger .


he spends each night lying awake in torment , waiting and watching as the evil in the darkness grows stronger , feeding off his fear .


in bucks county , pennsylvania , a five-hundred-foot crop circle is found on the farm of graham hess ( gibson ) , the town 's reverend .


call it magic realism or surrealism , but miss wonton floats beyond reality with a certain degree of wit and dignity .


a team of experts must return back in time and replace the butterfly .


their love for each other is like a beacon in the storm .


a three part documentary series that explores a unique rehabilitation program for repeat offenders and gang members .


a creepy , intermittently powerful study of a self-destructive man . . . about as unsettling to watch as an exploratory medical procedure or an autopsy .


they have 3 weeks until the next full moon to find the madman , but an innocent blind woman has found him first . . .


rajput blackmails neha ( sushmita sen ) to use her professional skills to help his plan , to train three blind men to rob the bank for him .


as lo-fi as the special effects are , the folks who cobbled nemesis together indulge the force of humanity over hardware in a way that george lucas has long forgotten .


she struggles as a barmaid with occasional singing acts in a dubious bar in chicago .


he arrives in the small welsh town , unsettling the life of his ex-lover ( redgrave ) while inspiring his newfound daughter to follow in his footsteps with a musical career of her own , against the wishes of her mother .


for all its bile and incoherence , in praise of love is filled with haunting images and insights . godard may be a lion in winter , but the lion still roars .


little incidents pile up , and eventually what was strange becomes terrifying .


her unsolicited yet intriguing input begins to inadvertently influence alex and his story and soon real life begins to imitate art .


this extremely unfunny film clocks in at 80 minutes , but feels twice as long .


it 's hard to like a film about a guy who is utterly unlikeable , and shiner , starring michael caine as an aging british boxing promoter desperate for a taste of fame and fortune , is certainly that .


a hypnotic portrait of this sad , compulsive life .


they lead a boring and unattractive life , until the day durval hires a maid , celia , to help his mother with the housekeeping .


it provides the grand , intelligent entertainment of a superior cast playing smart people amid a compelling plot .


a raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted korean american stand-up 's i 'm the one that i want .


harry is watching over his dying wife and waiting for the gun to arrive .


nora is not interested in foreign political smalltalk , she is after government secrets .


the whole time your poison thoughts were running through it !


his debut novel currently resides on top of the best-seller list , and even the potential diversion of hollywood knocking on his door can not keep him from his writing .


cuba gooding jr . valiantly mugs his way through snow dogs , but even his boisterous energy fails to spark this leaden comedy .


the couple is reunited and together face a hostile and unbelieving world .


hatosy establishes himself here not only as the bona fide star of this little ensemble film , but also as a talent to be watched .


a middlebrow hybrid that should satisfy most fans of spy movies without blowing them away .


this is one of the most visually stunning and thematically moving epics in recent memory , and in spite of numerous minor flaws , scorsese 's best in more than a decade .


in return , a million dollars in cash each .


his shiftlessness and his drinking have begun to jeopardize his relationship with his sultry girlfriend , tracy , with whom steve is secretly infatuated .


there 's an energy to y tu mamM-a tambiM-in . much of it comes from the brave , uninhibited performances by its lead actors .


one day , all the windows in the city disappeared . . .


viewed as a travelogue of the little-known indian community that prospers on a little-known island , trinidad , the mystic masseur is successful .


a rock-solid gangster movie with a fair amount of suspense , intriguing characters and bizarre bank robberies , plus a heavy dose of father-and-son dynamics .


it 's weird , wonderful , and not necessarily for kids .


down and out in l . a . 's valley , two longtime married , politically correct pornographers - played by annette o'toole and lyn vaus - are forced to confront the changes in their new age values and marriage when they discover in their archives extremely salacious old footage of tv 's currently # 1 sitcom star .


solaris `` is a shapeless inconsequential move relying on the viewer to do most of the work .


to forever is a haunting story full of suspense , tears and laughter .


they follow him to las vegas , where he is ostensibly doing `` research `` for the next season , but is actually pursuing a dream to become a dancer in a vegas show .


but for rachel , this love stirs not only untested emotions , but forces her to confront her past .


it 's mildly entertaining , especially if you find comfort in familiarity . but it 's hardly a necessary enterprise .


in 2000 , with berlin as germany 's new capital , an event happens forcing the group out of existential reason to reunite and , ultimately , come to grips with the reason they separated 12 years ago .


a stunning and informative nonfiction drama that looks at the arab-israel conflict from the mouths of babes .


functions as both a revealing look at the collaborative process and a timely , tongue-in-cheek profile of the corporate circus that is the recording industry in the current climate of mergers and downsizing .


it 's a smart , solid , kinetically-charged spy flick worthy of a couple hours of summertime and a bucket of popcorn . nothing overly original , mind you , but solidly entertaining .


as different as salt lake city and new york city , sam and charly are thrown together by circumstance and repelled by differences .


to imagine the life of harry potter as a martial arts adventure told by a lobotomized woody allen is to have some idea of the fate that lies in store for moviegoers lured to the mediocrity that is kung pow : enter the fist .


based on real events then fictionalized the film is set in los angeles circa 1977 and chronicles the rise of two fast-talking hustlers charlie rainone and jack brenner from the streets of south philly to the executive towers of the music business .


as the sexual revolution blossomed , and porn sub culture flourished john was the man .


however both amerika and zed get more than they bargained for when the carpet cleaners carry out their diabolical plan .


hitch would enjoy the way chabrol plays with the audience ( including the expertly interwoven lizt requiem )


utilizing lots of complicated , well-choreographed steadicam shots , la salle directs with confidence -- this may yet be his true calling .


through a funny , sometimes uncomfortable , and combative evening we learn what that brief romance meant to them and how they feel about the subsequent course of their lives .


she has returned to her family 's house in greece after many of her friends and family members have died over the years .


bill morrison 's decasia is uncompromising , difficult and unbearably beautiful .


in the end there is one word that best describes this film : honest .


but how shall they bring the news of failure to the grand councilwoman without being punished ?


not only an exuberant portrayal of hip-hop 's self-healing , it 's a compelling meditation on the future of making music in america .


beanie 's a big believer in appreciating the art in your own neighborhood even if it is n't backed by a multimillion-dollar budget M-^W and so am i .


director dirk shafer and co-writer greg hinton ride the dubious divide where gay porn reaches for serious drama .


has all the complexity and realistic human behavior of an episode of general hospital .


drawing from his time with the kids , he writes a story about children who do n't want to grow up .


he has come to earth to spearhead an invasion .


sheridan is painfully bad , a fourth-rate jim carrey who does n't understand the difference between dumb fun and just plain dumb .


steven 's outlandish plan inevitably backfires , and hilarity ensues as they fall for each other but are unable to express their true feelings .


discover what seprates the sportsstyles and the spiritual style of martial arts .


nair 's attention to detail creates an impeccable sense of place , while thurman and lewis give what can easily be considered career-best performances .


but for trey segal , that dream comes at a cost .


plays like a checklist of everything rob reiner and his cast were sending up .


renner 's performance as dahmer is unforgettable , deeply absorbing .


with this power , jesse start the search of god , fueled by anger about the world we live in .


the movie is a little tired ; maybe the original inspiration has run its course .


an awful lot like one of [ spears ' ] music videos in content -- except that it goes on for at least 90 more minutes and , worse , that you have to pay if you want to see it .


keith winds up on the phone with a popular radio psychiatrist ( kevin pollak ) who guides keith through what he can not see on his own .


at once subtle and visceral , the film never succumbs to the trap of the maudlin or tearful , offering instead with its unflinching gaze a measure of faith in the future .


dreamworks is to be commended for attempting to develop a form that , with the inauguration of the oscar for best animated feature , can only benefit from such tinkering .


it further declares its director , zhang yang of shower , as a boldly experimental , contemporary stylist with a bright future .


the porn business prospered greatly due to many of the movies he appeared in .


but fowler soon discovers cho cho is the only dog in the world who can speak to humans . . .


his emotionally wrenching and often humorous long first night back ends in a mutually relentless swordfight with his prospective brother-in-law that forces him into coming to terms with his loss .


their world is about to fall apart when melanie moves out , taking benny with her .


mitchell takes the gun to t-mon , a pimp who lives in a modern age opium den : pillows , candles , opium , and ho 's .


an unflinching , complex portrait of a modern israel that is rarely seen on-screen .


a universally accessible family fantasy with a stronger sense of its time and place than most live-action films can claim .


there are cheesy backdrops , ridiculous action sequences , and many tired jokes about men in heels .


michael baldwin ) after a series of nightmares he had .


the antichrist comes to earth as a newborn baby , but a nurse accidentally switches him with another newborn , and for eleven years he grows up as a normal child .


he also tells him that they are not gems .


the wonderful combination of the sweetness and the extraordinary technical accomplishments of the first film are maintained , but its overall impact falls a little flat with a storyline that never quite delivers the original magic .


a passable romantic comedy , in need of another couple of passes through the word processor .


as in his previous films , this kurdish director is again focusing on the oppression of his people .


harper and serkis are terrific , while caine carries the film with the authority of a man who has been here before .


this is the story of nat banks , an 8th generation virginian gentleman farmer living in the past , who loses his family farm , greenwood , to a pair of land speculators from washington , d . c .


vaguely interesting , but it 's just too too much .


though mama takes a bit too long to find its rhythm and a third-act plot development is somewhat melodramatic , its ribald humor and touching nostalgia are sure to please anyone in search of a jules and jim for the new millennium .


these movies were the first adult movies , most of them were made in order to explain how sex works to unexperimented young men before their first relation with a prostitute . . .


a suspense thriller with a brain and a heart .


nair does n't use [ monsoon wedding ] to lament the loss of culture . instead , she sees it as a chance to revitalize what is and always has been remarkable about clung-to traditions .


based on a true story , this is about the irish journalist veronica guerin ( cate blanchett ) , a reporter for the dublin sunday independent , who exposed some of dublin 's most powerful crime barons and drug lords in 1996 .


when he arrive she finds that his cousin has lied and that he lives in a flat above a shop with illegals etc . however he sets out to be a film star and auditions for a role that he gets .


a bad and bloody gang war is about to erupt on the dysfunctional streets of brooklyn .


love is a disaster for marie and her best friend liz .


as they work the case , veteran detective eldon perry , known for his tough street tactics and fiery temper , tutors sis rookie bobby keough in the grim realities of police intimidation and corruption .


to vaughn , lena embodies the society that has rejected him .


an absurdist comedy about alienation , separation and loss .


the film contains no good jokes , no good scenes , barely a moment when carvey 's saturday night live-honed mimicry rises above the level of embarrassment .


a unique bond was formed between both as he could share with her the intense pain of his unfulfilled love for paro .


despite slick production values and director roger michell 's tick-tock pacing , the final effect is like having two guys yelling in your face for two hours .


her short visit awakens a romance that can not go outside the island .


there are moments of real pleasure to be found in sara sugarman 's whimsical comedy very annie-mary but not enough to sustain the film .


they find themselves competing for not only the press ' attention , but also the focus of their shared lawyer , the suave billy flynn .


a man ( jason lee ) turns to a life of crime to pay for his niece 's ( linda cardellini ) tuition for her first year at a prestigious university .


it 's not hateful . it 's simply stupid , irrelevant and deeply , truly , bottomlessly cynical .


angry and confused teen runaways come and go at the shelter , as steve learns he is not alone in his predicament and that the streets offer a harsh reality .


it is only natural that only the most violent and powerful survive `` the shu `` .


should appeal to more than just hardcore hip-hop fans .


there 's no real reason to see it , and no real reason not to .


new york city homicide detective vincent lamarca has forged a long and distinguished career in law enforcement , making a name for himself as a man intensely committed to his work .


he is in search for his salvation and his son salvation from a family curse .


it makes you believe the cast and crew thoroughly enjoyed themselves and believed in their small-budget film .


like a elementary school bully , michael ovitz used his powerful position in the hollywood wars to step on , steal from and bad mouth whomever stood in his way of control of the schoolyard .


flaunts its quirky excesses like a new year 's eve drunk sporting a paper party hat .


the second part of aki kaurism & # 228 ; ki 's `` finland `` trilogy , the film follows a man who arrives in helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia .


outer-space buffs might love this film , but others will find its pleasures intermittent .


after this unusual , tragic experience , paul begins to realize that he has just lost his mom .


frodo and sam take gollum prisoner and continue on to mordor on the mission to destroy the one ring .


when carolyn 's assigned to coach pumpkin she 's terrified at first , but soon sees in him something she 's never seen before : a gentle humanity and honest clarity that touches her soul .


so infectious , so colorful , so exhilarating , that you almost forget that at its core , it 's merely a curry-inflected remake of father of the bride , with snippets of other films thrown in .


after baptizing their amnesiac boy-toy chris , the infamous pair takes him on a grand tour of their wild nightlife frolic , their spontaneous media extravaganza and their dazzling diva lifestyle in order to help him find his identity and his way home .


before they carry this out , they want to truly experience life on the edge and they devise a plan by which their suicides will make them legends .


charged with as much psychological depth as gun-slinging violence , johnny to and wai ka fai 's slick thriller brought a welcome jolt of adrenaline to the moribund hong kong action genre .


told in flashback as danny reviews the razor eaters ' videos , we see the spiralling rampage through two perspectives ( and two formats ) as danny and the razor eaters eventually collide in a thrilling , suspenseful climax .


full frontal had no effect and elicited no sympathies for any of the characters . by that measure , it is a failure .


the film 's sense of imagery gives it a terrible strength , but it 's propelled by the acting .


he journeys to the mecca of bodybuilding , los angeles , on a quest to attain specific answers in the field of physiological research as it relates to anatomy and the structuring of the ultimate training regimen .


it 's unnerving to see recoing 's bizzarre reaction to his unemployment . good film , but very glum .


they succeed in blowing up what they believe to be the main operations room , but are soon forced to make their escape as the entire compound unexpectedly erupts with gunfire and explosions .


there 's an excellent 90-minute film here ; unfortunately , it runs for 170 .


does a good job of establishing a time and place , and of telling a fascinating character 's story .


by taking entertainment tonight subject matter and giving it humor and poignancy , auto focus becomes both gut-bustingly funny and crushingly depressing .


stands paralyzed , and she is only saved by the intervention of the experienced climber , lasse .


three friends trace their relationships with each other and learn about themselves in the process .


it downplays the initial assault , referring to it only in fragmented flashbacks , while offering a cogent critique of ongoing attitudes about rape and its victims , particularly in japan .


the emotional overload of female angst irreparably drags the film down .


soon she finds herself in the most bizarre situations like doing `` harry & # 38 ; sally `` 's famous faked orgasm scene , judging everyone , starting fights and visiting the theatre to find out her boyfriend is `` doing `` other girls on stage .


while the plot follows a predictable connect-the-dots course . . . director john schultz colors the picture in some evocative shades .


me without you has a bracing truth that 's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood .


the search takes the family to strife-torn sri lanka , where amudha comes face-to-face with reality , and reconciles herself to it .


there 's not enough here to justify the almost two hours .


matters become even more complicated when juwanna realizes that he is falling for his teammate michelle ( vivica a . fox ) , who shows him that there is more to women than meets the eye .


based on the famous 1947 hoax letter written to vought aviation in which thousands of copies have since been distributed .


a british television personality , terry twillstein ( bob odenkirk ) , gets sight of ronnie and brings ronnie to hollywood to get him his own tv show .


the tuxedo was n't just bad ; it was , as my friend david cross would call it , 'hungry-man portions of bad ' .


kimberly corman and her friends decide to head out on a trip .


utterly lacking in charm , wit and invention , roberto benigni 's pinocchio is an astonishingly bad film .


an experimental documentary about a family 's loss of a child and the struggle between remembrance and forgetting .


message movie or an action-packed submarine spectacular ? alas , it 's neither .


'wheatfield with crows ' takes the life of vincent van gogh and sets it in the modern day music industry .


a dozen years later we find west is an inmate at a forbidding old prison .


an immensely entertaining look at some of the unsung heroes of 20th century pop music .


broomfield reveals an ironic manifestation of institutionalized slavery that ties a black-owned record label with a white-empowered police force .


even on those rare occasions when the narrator stops yammering , miller 's hand often feels unsure .


a brain twister , less a movie-movie than a funny and weird meditation on hollywood , success , artistic integrity and intellectual bankruptcy .


consequently , what begins as an enthusiastic road trip is soon plagued with mysterious roadside obstacles that threaten to prevent the boys from ever making it to the competition .


shanghai ghetto , much stranger than any fiction , brings this unknown slice of history affectingly to life .


inherently caustic and oddly whimsical , the film chimes in on the grieving process and strangely draws the audience into the unexplainable pain and eccentricities that are attached to the concept of loss .


the obnoxious special effects , the obligatory outbursts of flatulence and the incessant , so-five-minutes-ago pop music on the soundtrack overwhelm what is left of the scruffy , dopey old hanna-barbera charm .


ver wiel has concocted one of the most elaborately twisted , diverting caper films in years .


james clayton ( farrell ) might not have the attitude of a typical recruit , but he is one of the smartest graduating seniors in the country - and he 's just the person that walter burke ( pacino ) wants in the agency .


a serious movie with serious ideas . but seriously , folks , it does n't work .


to get the job done , they must all do what they have never done before # trust each other .


its scenes and sensibility are all more than familiar , but it exudes a kind of nostalgic spy-movie charm and , at the same time , is so fresh and free of the usual thriller nonsense that it all seems to be happening for the first time .


suddenly a hand can do something no hand has done before and lips something no lips have ever done .


at the same time , gwen who writes for the college paper , is tasked with doing a story on him , but van is too busy partying to do that .


while accompanying an us senator on his mission in cuba , he makes a botch of so many things , that a minor blunder by the senator turns into a serious incident , which intensifies into a second cuban crisis - thanks to further entanglements by the media , police , and diplomats who represent the arch-enemies usa and cuba .


this `` league `` comprises seafarer/inventor captain nemo ( shah ) , vampiress mina harker ( wilson ) , an invisible man named rodney skinner ( curran ) , american secret service agent tom sawyer ( west ) , the ageless and invincible dorian gray ( townsend ) , and the dangerous split personality of dr . jekyll/mr .


the movie begins in the past where a young boy named sam attempts to save celebi from a hunter .


after several scenes of this tacky nonsense , you 'll be wistful for the testosterone-charged wizardry of jerry bruckheimer productions , especially because half past dead is like the rock on a wal-mart budget .


when the day finally comes , johnny breaks from joe , which leads to only one thing - violence .


oops , she 's really done it this time . that chirpy songbird britney spears has popped up with more mindless drivel .


this re-do is so dumb and so exploitative in its violence that , ironically , it becomes everything that the rather clumsy original was railing against .


when young , virginal caroline ( misty mundae ) learns of her mother 's death in paris , she travels to the city of lights for the funeral .


skins has a desolate air , but eyre , a native american raised by white parents , manages to infuse the rocky path to sibling reconciliation with flashes of warmth and gentle humor .


there is no pleasure in watching a child suffer . just embarrassment and a vague sense of shame .


enigma looks great , has solid acting and a neat premise . yet why it fails is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma .


ultimately , she must accept that those she loves can give her love and nothing more and that she must find her own , uncertain way .


for carlos - who has been challenged by his mentor to rework a superficial comic strip into something with depth and substance - running the store is the last thing on his mind .


as tweedy talks about canning his stockbroker and repairing his pool , you yearn for a few airborne tv sets or nude groupies on the nod to liven things up .


but as documentary filmmaker , zeus papagianakopoulous , is about to find out , the real story took place when the cameras were n't rolling .


traffics in the kind of prechewed racial clichM-is that have already been through the corporate stand-up-comedy mill .


one of the pleasures in walter 's documentary . . . is the parade of veteran painters , confounded dealers , and miscellaneous bohos who expound upon the subject 's mysterious personality without ever explaining him .


but he finds an unlikely ally in sofia , beno 's sultry mistress .


fraud feathers and fairies ( one of the stories from the 'red rock ' trilogy of stage plays ) is based on the california gold rush era in the mythical town of red rock .


greg kinnear gives a mesmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex addict who is in complete denial about his obsessive behavior .


stryker puts into motion a plan to eradicate the mutants and begins an offensive on the x-men mansion and school .


the documentary will combine an interview with mr . mcnamara discussing some of the tragedies and glories of the 20th century , archival footage , documents , and an original score by philip glass .


he also does n't realize that he accidentally left one of his shoes there .


it could change america , not only because it is full of necessary discussion points , but because it is so accessible that it makes complex politics understandable to viewers looking for nothing but energetic entertainment .


anyone who suffers through this film deserves , at the very least , a big box of consolation candy .


it proves quite compelling as an intense , brooding character study .


the internment of 120 , 000 innocent people was a dark moment in the history of this country .


then you remember where the bad dreams came from .


ajileo journeys from his home in zapotitlan de salinas , a village in southern mexico , makes a perilious border crossing through the desert , and comes to hollywood , where everything and nothing is as he dreamed it would be .


by contrast , tom finds her world increasingly seductive , and as fatal gradually loses the only person she trusts , she discovers destiny has other plans .


a few zingers aside , the writing is indifferent , and jordan brady 's direction is prosaic .


as an actress , madonna is one helluva singer . as the mediterranean sparkles , 'swept away ' sinks .


the last 6 weeks have been spent trying to `` get out `` of the relationship .


one horrible night , kimberly mathews , a random girl from the nearby town , wanders too close to willy 's territory .


in the heart of a sanitized suburban neighborhood , herbert 's everyday life is filled with constant emasculation at the hands of his wife , eleanor , and the daily grind of work on the chain .


thurman plays a character known as the bride , a pregnant assassin who is shot by her boss , bill ( david carradine ) , on her wedding day , leaving herself and the wedding guests lying for dead .


a wedding is arranged and cassandra is left on the sidelines as everyone around her is drawn into a maelstrom of interconnected relationships .


beautifully written and directed and packed with excellent performances .


thirteen conversations about one thing lays out a narrative puzzle that interweaves individual stories , and , like a mobius strip , elliptically loops back to where it began .


the police have no clues nor suspects until nick and his colleague realize the killer is a giant octopus .


as rachel and daniel race through london 's nightscape , desperate to stay one step ahead of betts , every discovery unleashes further hell , extending way beyond the disappearance of rachel 's baby .