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a pleasant , if forgettable , romp of a film . | 2 | neutral |
the cumulative effect of watching this 65-minute trifle is rather like being trapped while some weird relative trots out the video he took of the family vacation to stonehenge . | 0 | very negative |
crackerjack entertainment -- nonstop romance , music , suspense and action . | 4 | very positive |
the script is smart and dark - hallelujah for small favors . | 3 | positive |
a beautiful paean to a time long past . | 3 | positive |
uses high comedy to evoke surprising poignance . | 4 | very positive |
a hard look at one man 's occupational angst and its subsequent reinvention , a terrifying study of bourgeois desperation worthy of claude chabrol . | 3 | positive |
yep , it 's `` waking up in reno . '' | 2 | neutral |
throughout , mr. audiard 's direction is fluid and quick . | 3 | positive |
an absurdist comedy about alienation , separation and loss . | 1 | negative |
you could hate it for the same reason . | 1 | negative |
` it 's painful to watch witherspoon 's talents wasting away inside unnecessary films like legally blonde and sweet home abomination , i mean , alabama . ' | 0 | very negative |
it has the charm of the original american road movies , feasting on the gorgeous , ramshackle landscape of the filmmaker 's motherland . | 3 | positive |
an exquisitely crafted and acted tale . | 4 | very positive |
starts as an intense political and psychological thriller but is sabotaged by ticking time bombs and other hollywood-action cliches . | 0 | very negative |
as a hybrid teen thriller and murder mystery , murder by numbers fits the profile too closely . | 2 | neutral |
underachieves only in not taking the shakespeare parallels quite far enough . | 2 | neutral |
has some visual wit ... but little imagination elsewhere . | 2 | neutral |
has it ever been possible to say that williams has truly inhabited a character ? | 1 | negative |
maggie g. makes an amazing breakthrough in her first starring role and eats up the screen . | 4 | very positive |
human resources was a good , straightforward tale , but time out is better . | 2 | neutral |
rarely has so much money delivered so little entertainment . | 1 | negative |
longley has constructed a remarkably coherent , horrifically vivid snapshot of those turbulent days . | 3 | positive |
the humor is hinged on the belief that knees in the crotch , elbows in the face and spit in the eye are inherently funny . | 1 | negative |
despite a performance of sustained intelligence from stanford and another of subtle humour from bebe neuwirth , as an older woman who seduces oscar , the film founders on its lack of empathy for the social milieu - rich new york intelligentsia - and its off | 2 | neutral |
ultimate x is a ride , basically the kind of greatest-hits reel that might come with a subscription to espn the magazine . | 2 | neutral |
instead of making his own style , director marcus adams just copies from various sources -- good sources , bad mixture | 0 | very negative |
the dominant feeling is something like nostalgia . ' | 2 | neutral |
... although this idea is `` new '' the results are tired . | 1 | negative |
parts seem like they were lifted from terry gilliam 's subconscious , pressed through kafka 's meat grinder and into buñuel 's casings | 3 | positive |
everywhere the camera looks there is something worth seeing . | 4 | very positive |
a tv episode inflated past its natural length . | 1 | negative |
you can fire a torpedo through some of clancy 's holes , and the scripters do n't deserve any oscars . | 0 | very negative |
everything is pegged into the groove of a new york dating comedy with ` issues ' to simplify . | 2 | neutral |
it 's mildly interesting to ponder the peculiar american style of justice that plays out here , but it 's so muddled and derivative that few will bother thinking it all through . | 1 | negative |
visits spy-movie territory like a novel you ca n't put down , examines a footnote to history seldom brought to light on the screen , and keeps you guessing from first frame to last . | 4 | very positive |
it 's a grab bag of genres that do n't add up to a whole lot of sense . | 1 | negative |
a tremendous piece of work . | 4 | very positive |
yakusho , as always , is wonderful as the long-faced sad sack ... and his chemistry with shimizu is very believable . | 4 | very positive |
jonah is only so-so ... the addition of a biblical message will either improve the film for you , or it will lessen it . | 2 | neutral |
the performances are immaculate , with roussillon providing comic relief . | 4 | very positive |
to my taste , the film 's comic characters come perilously close to being amoses and andys for a new generation . | 2 | neutral |
purposefully shocking in its eroticized gore , if unintentionally dull in its lack of poetic frissons . | 0 | very negative |
mike leigh populates his movie with a wonderful ensemble cast of characters that bring the routine day to day struggles of the working class to life | 4 | very positive |
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 . | 2 | neutral |
a highly personal look at the effects of living a dysfunctionally privileged lifestyle , and by the end , we only wish we could have spent more time in its world . | 2 | neutral |
impresses as a skillfully assembled , highly polished and professional adaptation ... just about as chilling and unsettling as ` manhunter ' was . | 4 | very positive |
a morose little soap opera about three vapid , insensitive people who take turns hurting each other . | 2 | neutral |
-lrb- javier bardem is -rrb- one of the few reasons to watch the film , which director gerardo vera has drenched in swoony music and fever-pitched melodrama . | 2 | neutral |
a stupid , derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense . | 0 | very negative |
a smart , witty follow-up . | 4 | very positive |
a selection of scenes in search of a movie . | 1 | negative |
good performances and a realistic , non-exploitive approach make paid in full worth seeing . | 4 | very positive |
by turns very dark and very funny . | 4 | very positive |
sheridan is painfully bad , a fourth-rate jim carrey who does n't understand the difference between dumb fun and just plain dumb . | 0 | very negative |
a movie that will surely be profane , politically charged music to the ears of cho 's fans . | 3 | positive |
a fast-moving and remarkable film that appears destined to become a landmark in japanese animation . | 4 | very positive |
twenty years later , reggio still knows how to make a point with poetic imagery , but his ability to startle has been stifled by the very prevalence of the fast-forward technology that he so stringently takes to task . | 2 | neutral |
it may as well be called `` jar-jar binks : the movie . '' | 0 | very negative |
it 's one of the saddest films i have ever seen that still manages to be uplifting but not overly sentimental . | 4 | very positive |
the movie is a lumbering load of hokum but ... it 's at least watchable . | 1 | negative |
the movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does mark ms. bullock 's best work in some time . | 3 | positive |
with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams writer\/director\/producer robert rodriguez has cobbled together a film that feels like a sugar high gone awry . | 0 | very negative |
few films this year have been as resolute in their emotional nakedness . | 4 | very positive |
it appears to have been made by people to whom the idea of narrative logic or cohesion is an entirely foreign concept . | 0 | very negative |
it 's possible that something hip and transgressive was being attempted here that stubbornly refused to gel , but the result is more puzzling than unsettling . | 0 | very negative |
huppert and girardot give performances of exceptional honesty . | 4 | very positive |
it 's sweet , funny , charming , and completely delightful . | 4 | very positive |
a less-than-thrilling thriller . | 0 | very negative |
maybe i found the proceedings a little bit too conventional . | 1 | negative |
thurman and lewis are hilarious throughout . | 4 | very positive |
another rent installment for the ian fleming estate . | 1 | negative |
i was trying to decide what annoyed me most about god is great ... i 'm not , and then i realized that i just did n't care . | 0 | very negative |
halfway through , however , having sucked dry the undead action flick formula , blade ii mutates into a gross-out monster movie with effects that are more silly than scary . | 1 | negative |
hollywood ending just is n't very funny . | 1 | negative |
some decent actors inflict big damage upon their reputations . | 1 | negative |
promises is a compelling piece that demonstrates just how well children can be trained to live out and carry on their parents ' anguish . | 3 | positive |
has a plot full of twists upon knots ... and a nonstop parade of mock-tarantino scuzbag types that starts out clever but veers into overkill . | 1 | negative |
the kind of movie that leaves vague impressions and a nasty aftertaste but little clear memory of its operational mechanics . | 1 | negative |
an overly familiar scenario is made fresh by an intelligent screenplay and gripping performances in this low-budget , video-shot , debut indie effort . | 3 | positive |
schrader examines crane 's decline with unblinking candor . | 3 | positive |
a soggy , cliche-bound epic-horror yarn that ends up being even dumber than its title . | 1 | negative |
that chirpy songbird britney spears has popped up with more mindless drivel . | 0 | very negative |
it will not appeal to the impatient , but those who like long books and movies will admire the way it accumulates power and depth . | 2 | neutral |
an uncomfortable movie , suffocating and sometimes almost senseless , the grey zone does have a center , though a morbid one . | 0 | very negative |
too much of the humor falls flat . | 1 | negative |
christians sensitive to a reductionist view of their lord as a luv-spreading dr. feelgood or omnipotent slacker will feel vastly more affronted than secularists , who might even praise god for delivering such an instant camp classic . | 3 | positive |
a rollicking ride , with jaw-dropping action sequences , striking villains , a gorgeous color palette , astounding technology , stirring music and a boffo last hour that leads up to a strangely sinister happy ending . | 4 | very positive |
made-up lampoons the moviemaking process itself , while shining a not particularly flattering spotlight on america 's skin-deep notions of pulchritude . | 2 | neutral |
this is a third-person story now , told by hollywood , and much more ordinary for it . | 1 | negative |
the title 's lameness should clue you in on how bad the movie is . | 0 | very negative |
daughter from danang sticks with its subjects a little longer and tells a deeper story | 3 | positive |
there are cheesy backdrops , ridiculous action sequences , and many tired jokes about men in heels . | 0 | very negative |
explosions , jokes , and sexual innuendoes abound . | 2 | neutral |
the filmmakers juggle and juxtapose three story lines but fail to come up with one cogent point , unless it 's that life stinks , especially for sensitive married women who really love other women . | 1 | negative |
as a movie , it never seems fresh and vital . | 2 | neutral |
an artful yet depressing film that makes a melodramatic mountain out of the molehill of a missing bike . | 1 | negative |
jeffrey tambor 's performance as the intelligent jazz-playing exterminator is oscar-worthy . | 4 | very positive |
shows moments of promise but ultimately succumbs to cliches and pat storytelling . | 1 | negative |
director tom dey demonstrated a knack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 debut shanghai noon , but showtime 's uninspired send-up of tv cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks . | 3 | positive |