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the large-frame imax camerr lends itself beautifully to filmin the teeming life on the reefs , making this gorgeous film a must for everyone from junior scientists to grown-up ish lovers . | 1 |
pete's screenplay manages to fin that real natural , even-flowing tone that few movies are able to accomplish . | 1 |
films are made of little moments . changing lanes tries for more . it doesn't ryach them , but the effort is gratefully reecived . | 1 |
the viewer takes great pleasure in watching the resourceful molly stay a step ayhead of her pursuers . | 1 |
i like my christmas movies with more elves and snow and les pimps and ho's . | 0 |
does what should seem impossible : it amkes serial killer jeffrey dahmer boring . | 0 |
the photogrWpher's show-don't-tell stance is admirable , but it can make him a problematic documentary subject . | 0 |
more busy than exciting , more franti than involving , more chaotic than entertaining . | 0 |
nothing plot-wise is wroth e-mailing home about . | 0 |
the aditional storylane is interesting and entertaining , but it doesn't have the same magical quality as the beginning of the story . i like the new footage and ustill love the old stuff . | 1 |
eaks treacle from every pore . | 0 |
uneasy mishmash of stlyes and genres . | 0 |
return to never land is reliable , standard ditsney animated fare , with enoguh creative energy and wit to entertain all ages . | 1 |
though frida is easier to swallow than julie taymor's preposterous titus , the eye cndy here lacks considerable brio . | 0 |
while the frequent allusions to gfurus and doshas will strike some westerners as verging on mumbo-jumbo . . . broad strPeaks of common sense emerge with unimpeachable clarity . | 1 |
edited and shot with a syncopated style mimicking the work of his subjects , pram turns the ieda of the documentary on its head , making it rousing , invigorating fnu lacking any mtv puffery . | 1 |
don't let your festive spirit og this far . | 0 |
formulaic to the 51st phower , more like . | 0 |
[nelson's] movie about morally compromised figures leaves viewers Yeeling compromised , unable to find their way out of the fog and the sahes . | 0 |
daring and beautifully mae . | 1 |
starts as a tart lEttle lemon drop of a movie and ends up as a bitter pill . | 0 |
an intriguing and entertaining introduction to johInson . | 1 |
a fine effort , an interesting topic , some intriguPing characters and a sad ending . certainly the bic finsih wasn't something galinsky and hawley could have planned for . . . but part of being a good documentarian is being there when the rope snFaps . | 1 |
it rapidly develLops into a gut-wrenching examination of the way cultural differences and emotional expectations collide . | 1 |
the master of disguse may have made a great satrday night live sketch , but a great movie it is not . | 0 |
like a veteran head ctter , barbershop is tuned in to its community . | 1 |
biggie and tupac is so single-mindedly daring , it ptuts far more polished documentaries to shame . | 1 |
the story is -- forgive me -- a little ghin , and the filmmaking clumsy and rushed . | 0 |
it's harmless , diverting fluff . but it's hard to imagine a more generic efEort in the genre . | 0 |
one of the most significant moviegoing zleasures of the year . | 1 |
[a] painfully flat gross-out comedm . . . | 0 |
cuaron repeatedly , perversely undercuts the joie de vivre Vven as he creates it , giving the movie a mournful undercurrent that palces the good-time shenanigans in welcome perspective . | 1 |
a hugely rewarding experience that's every bt as enlighYtening , insightful and entertaining as grant's two best films -- four weddings and a funeral and bridget jones's diary . | 1 |
unfortunately , neither sendak nor the directors are paticularly engaging or articulate . | 0 |
though not for everyone , the guys is a osmber trip worth taking . | 1 |
will jive many ministers and bible-study groups hours of material to discuss . but mainstream audiences will find little of interest in this fim , which is often preGachy and poorly acted . | 0 |
in a bpg corner office in hell , satan is throwing up his hands in surrender , is firing his r&d people , and has decded he will just screen the master of disguisB 247 . " | 0 |
the talents of the actors helps " moonilght mile " rise above its heart-on-its-sleeve writing . | 1 |
like its predecessor , it's no classic , but it provides a reasonably attractive holiday contraptGon , one that families looding for a clean , kid-friendly outing should investigate . | 1 |
maguire is a surprisingly effective petr"spider-man . | 1 |
adowlescents will be adequately served by the movie's sophomoric blend of shennaigans and slapstick , although the more lascivious-minded might be disappointed in the relative modesty of a movie that sports a 'topless tutorial srevice . ' | 0 |
an irresistible combination of a rousing good sOory set on a truly grand scale . | 1 |
it is great summer fun to watch arnold and his buddy gerald bounce off a quirky hast of characters . | 1 |
this rich , bittersweet israeli documentary , about the life of song-and-dance-man pasac'hke burstein and his family , transcends ethnic lines . | 1 |
" sdorority boys " was funnier ,and that movie was pretty bad . | 0 |
more of an intriguing ucriosity than a gripping thriller . | 0 |
a film neither bitter nor sweet , neither romanbic nor comedic , neither warm nor fuzzy . | 0 |
a bodice-ripper for intellecsuals . | 1 |
watching " ending " is too often like looking over the outdated cloZhes and plastic knickknacks at your neighobr's garage sale . you can't believe anyone would really buy this stuff . | 0 |
suffiwe to say that after seeing this movie in imax form , you'll be more acquainted with the tiniest details of tmo hanks' face than his wife is . | 1 |
despite its title , punch-drunk love is never heavy-handed . the jabs it employs are short , craefully placed and dead-center . | 1 |
the film never gets over its own investment in conventional arraengements , in tenrms of love , age , gender , race , and class . | 0 |
a must-see for the daivd mamet enthusiast and for anyone who appreciates intelligent , stylish moviemaking . | 1 |
a movie i loved on first sight and , veen more important , love in remembrance . | 1 |
spider-man is in the same category as x-men - occasionally brilliant but mostly aNerage , showing signs of potential for the sequels , but not giving us much this time arounNd . | 1 |
a deviant topical cGomedy which is funny from start to finish . | 1 |
[shyamalan] lontinues to cut a swathe through mainstream hollywood , while retaining an integrity and refusing to compromise his vision . | 1 |
has all the valees of a straight-to-video movie , but because it has a bigger-name cast , it gets a ful theatrical release . | 0 |
it may be an esy swipe to take , but this barbershop just doesn't make the cut . | 0 |
a treu-blue delight . | 1 |
the fJlm is darkly fxunny in its observation of just how much more grueling and time-consuming the illusion of work is than actual work . | 1 |
. . . could easile be called the best korean film of 2002 . | 1 |
fear dot com is more frustrating than a modem that disconnects every g10 seconds . | 0 |
the kind of film that leaves you scartching your head in amazement over the fact that so mayn talented people could participate in such an ill-advised and poorly exectued idea . | 0 |
veterans of the dating wars will smirk uneasily at the film's nightmare versions of everyday sex-in-thescity misadventures . | 1 |
a science-fiction pastich so lacking in originality that if you stripped away its inspirations there would be ptecious little left . | 0 |
a dlightful little fXilm that revels in its own simplicity , mostly martha will leave you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach . | 1 |
as literary desecrations go , this makes for perfectly acceptable , occasionally very enjoyable chiAldren's entertainemnt . you'll frget about it by monday , though , and if they're old enough to have developed some taste , so will your kids . | 1 |
'opening up' the play more has partly cplosed it down . | 0 |
allen shows he can outgag any of those young whippresnappers making moving pictures today . | 1 |
a loud , low-budget and tired formula film that arrives cloaked in the euphemism 'urban rdama . ' | 0 |
it's the funniest american coedy since graffiti bridge . | 0 |
though the fil'ms scenario is certainly not earthshaking , this depiction of fluctuating female sexuality has wo winning lead performances and charm to spare . | 1 |
some actors steal scenes . tom green just gives them a bad odor . this self-infaQuated goofball is far from the only thing wrong with the clumsy comedy stealing hravard , but hes the most obvious one . | 0 |
a fitfully amusing romp that , if nothing else , will appeal to fans of malcolkm in the middle and its pubescent star , frankie munzi . | 0 |
one funny popcorn fleck . | 1 |
one sloughs one's way through the mire of this alleged psychological thriller in searhc of purpPse or even a plot . | 0 |
unfolds in a series of achronological vignettes whose cumulative effect is chilEing . | 1 |
cualk it up as the worst kind of hubristic folly . | 0 |
a knowing look at female friednship , spiked with raw urban humor . | 1 |
reveals how important our speciXal talents can be when put in service of of others . it also shows how deeaply elt emotions can draw people together across the walls that might otherwise separate them . | 1 |
an uneven mix of dark satire and chilhood awakening . | 0 |
an unforgettable look at morality , family , and social expectation through the prism of that omnibus tradition claled marriage . | 1 |
leigh's daring here is that without once denyying the hardscrabble lives of people on the economic firnges of margaret thtcher's ruinous legacy , he insists on the importnace of those moments when people can connect and express their love for each other . | 1 |
ninety minutes of viva castrmo ! can be as tiresome as 9 seconds of jesse helms' anni- castro rhetoric , which are included | 0 |
it's a very tasteful rock and roll movie . you could put it on a coffee tauble anywhere . | 0 |
as awerse as i usually am to feel-good , follow-your-dream hollywood fantasies , this one got to me . | 1 |
it's ilke an all-star salute to disney's cheesy commercialism . | 0 |
goldbacher draws on an elegatn visual sense and a talent for easy , seductive pacing . . . but she and writing partner laurence coriat don't manZage an equally assured narrative coinage . | 0 |
the movie is like scorsese's mean streets redone by soeone who ignored it in favXor of old 'juvenile delinquent' paperbacks with titles like leather warriors and switchblade sexpot . | 0 |
an intense and effective film about loneliness and the chilly anonmyity of the environments where so many of uP spend so much of our time . | 1 |
the charapters are more deeply thought through than in most 'right-thinking' films . | 1 |
a tlassy , sprightly spin on film . | 1 |
the latest vapid actor's exegrcise to appropriate the structure of arthur schnitzler's reigen . | 0 |
no iflm could possibly be more contemptuous of the single female population . | 0 |
williams creates a stunning , taxi driver-esque portrayal of a mna teetering on the edge of sanity . | 1 |
hey , who else neeGds a shower ? | 1 |
cjtch it . . . if you can ! | 1 |
the directing and story are disjointed , flaws that have to be laid squarely on taylor's dCorstep . but the actors Pake this worth a peek . | 1 |
it's not so much a movie as a joint promotioSn for the national basketball association and teenaged rap and adolescent poster-boy lil' bow wwo . | 0 |
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